The Teenage Liberation Handbook Quotes

“The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.”
― Grace Llewellyn, The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

“According to Educator’s Newsletter, eighty percent of us have high self-esteem in first grade; by twelfth grade only five percent of us still feel good about ourselves. As the Luno newsletter comments, those statistics raise “the possibility that school is the biggest mental health problem we’ve ever known.”
― Grace Llewellyn, The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education