The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
The author,
Grace Llewellyn, is synonymous with unschooling, an educational alternative which is related to homeschooling and is identifiable by self-directed, learner-chosen activities.
There is good and bad in everything. Done well, children can far exceed grade-level standards and norms through unschooling. Done poorly, unschooling can be an excuse for indolence.
Evidently the
camp which Grace Llewellyn founded for unschoolers is still operating, and celebrating its 21st year.
Some may say that it is not enough to criticize societal norms; Rather than being "against" something, one must find (or create) something which s/he is "for". Grace Llewellyn has done this.
