Title: Comments on The Teenage Liberation Handbook
Review: This book contains many excellent ideas about self-education, and would be beneficial to the outside-of-school life of a traditional high school student, as well as to an unschooler.However, this book frequently tells the reader that their problems are not their own fault. Everyone likes to hear that, but it can't possibly be completely true. The writing is frequently, and unnecessarily, bitter and mean-spirited.Much of the book is unnecessarily devoted to criticizing traditional school. In any work of fiction, the protagonist appears stronger with the presence of a strong antagonist, but the author presents unschooling as the alternative to something undesirable and intolerable. She also ignores the group of potential unschoolers who are happy with school and/or succeed in that environment. Unschooling is not just for those who hate school.
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