The teenage liberation handbook : how to quit school and get a real life and education

An estimated 700,000 American children are now taught at home. This book tells teens how to take control of their lives and get a "real life." Young people can reclaim their natural ability to teach themselves and design a personalized education program. Grace Llewellyn explains the entire process, from making the decision to quit school, to discovering the learning opportunities available. Quit school and get a real education? It sounds like a recipe for disaster. As education becomes a burning issue for many parents, here comes a book which declares that school destroys and confuses the process of learning and that if you leave school it will change your life - for the better. Leaving school leads to real learning and meaningful work, while parents can get to know their kids better. Homeschooling is taking off in a big way, not only in the US but in much of Europe, and Grace Llewellyn presents it as a real alterative, with a useful resource guide to start you off. Full of stimulating, controversial and exhilarating ideas, this practical and inspirational book is a must for all teenagers who want to learn, but seriously question the educational system's ability to teach. It will enable them to: reclaim their natural ability to learn and teach others, design a personalized education, learn how other unschooled teenagers spend their time, make friends with their parents, find work opportunities, and go to college without going to school. Tips for teens wanting to take charge of their own education and for anyone interested in the practice of home schooling or "unschooling." HOW STRANGE AND self-defeating that a supposedly free country should train its young for life in totalitarianism.