A BRITISH couple chose to travel the world instead of putting their children into a school because they felt they couldn’t find one that was good enough.

    Paul and Caroline King, who met whilst traveling, have spent the last 19 months taking their children Winston, 6, and 4-year-old Henry around 15 countries.

    The couple claim their sons are more advanced than other children their age and after looking at around 20 schools for their eldest Winston they made the life-changing decision.

    After selling their £280,000 (US$368,788) house and its contents they have now educated the boys themselves and currently have no plans to stop.

    Speaking to The Sunday Mirror, Paul, 39, from Cambridge, said, “We’ll never force the boys to go to school or take an exam. We don’t raise our voices to the boys, so why should a teacher be allowed to?”

    The couple met whilst traveling in Kashmir in 2003 and settled in Gothenburg, in Sweden, the country Caroline, 35, is from.

    According to the interview with The Sunday Mirror, Caroline considered the idea when Winston was claiming to be bored at nursery where he was learning to read at the age of 1.

    After starting their travels in Romania, then Dubai, the family have gone on to visit India, the Maldives, Malaysia, Indonesia, Borneo, Thailand, Laos, the U.S., Colombia, Spain, Egypt, Italy and the Czech Republic.

    Paul has a business called Hammock Heaven, which makes hammocks in a warehouse in Cambridgeshire, but he runs it remotely to fund their chosen lifestyle.

    He added, “Sometimes, it feels like they aren’t taking anything in. They weren’t bowled over by the pyramids and when we saw a Roman amphitheater they said it was boring.

    “But later, they will talk about what they’ve seen so we know it made an impression. One morning, they woke up and asked to go back to Egypt. Why read about history and cultures in a book when you can experience them first-hand?”

    The parents do projects based on their visits and don’t believe in shouting at their children.

    They are spending the summer in Prague but have plans to go to Iceland and Australia next.

    (SD-Agencies)