A Book You Might Like – The Teenage Liberation Handbook

I read The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education when I was nineteen – I’d already finished high school, and had even spent a year at university. That I hadn’t read it earlier broke my heart.

Some kids do just fine in school. I don’t mean in terms of grades, I mean emotionally. They are ok with sitting still all day every day in an authoritarian environment. They believe adults who say “there is no use complaining, school is a reality, if you can’t fit in there is something wrong with you, etc”.

I’m sure that these kids exist.

Most of us, however, have recurring nightmares about pop quizzes for the rest of our lives. If we are lucky enough to rediscover our creativity, our freedom of spirit, then we must grieve those things in order to reclaim them in our lives. We regret the years of our youth lost to ‘learning’, and wonder why we couldn’t have spent our precious time doing the important stuff.

No matter your age, this book will be a liberating experience. If you are still in school, or know someone who is, this book will also be a thoroughly helpful guide to taking control of their lives.

This book ought to get ten stars out of five. It is absolutely brilliant, it’s honest, it’s helpful, it’s inspirational.