The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

Name: The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
Author: Grace Llewellyn

by Grace Llewellyn

A how-to for leaving school and learning anyway.

For you if

you suspect your teenager is learning more outside school than in it.

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Llewellyn was a schoolteacher who quit, and wrote the guide she wished teenagers had: how to leave school, how to learn on your own, how to find mentors, build a project and make a life that does not wait for a diploma. It is practical, funny and fierce, full of stories of kids who tried it. A book for a teenager who is bored, and a parent who suspects they should be listening.

Where This Book Lives

Themes: childhood independence community curiosity education rebellion against authority

Pass with note. First published in 1991 and updated since, so some resources and the internet advice are dated. It is written from a position of some privilege: not every family can pull a teen out of school. Llewellyn had no documented concerns. Availability flag: confirm an in-stock print edition at Bookshop.org. DoCR tie. Close relatives: Free to Learn, Dumbing Us Down, How Children Fail, Deschooling Society and Raising Free People (suggested 11-05).

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