Inside this Book – What the educators apparently haven’t realized yet is that experiential education is a double-edged sword. If you do something to learn it, then what you do, you learn. All the time you are in school, you learn through experience how to live in a dictatorship. In school you shut your notebook when the bell rings. You do not speak unless granted permission. You are guilty until proven innocent, and who will prove you innocent? You are told what to do, think, and say for six hours each day. If your teacher says sit up and pay attention, you had better stiffen your spine and try to get Bobby or Sally or the idea of Spring or the play you’re writing off of your mind. The most constant and thorough thing students in school experience—and learn—is the antithesis of democracy. When I was in sixth grade, I had the good fortune to learn that democracy in the “real world” is not a crime, at the same time that I learned (not for the first time) that democracy in schools is a crime. Two of my friends and I were disgusted by the state of our school lunches. After finding mold on the rolls one day and being generally fed up with the cardboard taste of things, we decided to take action. Stephanie and Stacey started a petition. Its purpose was a bit misspelled and unclear, but at the top it said something that meant, “Sign below if you are tired of revolting lunches, and put a check by your name if your roll was moldy on Tuesday.” People signed the petition during lunch; we had three pages or so of sloppy signatures on wrinkly notebook paper.
- Full Book Name – The Teenage Liberation Handbook
- Author of this Book – Grace Llewellyn
- Language – English
- Book Genre – Non-Fiction
- Download Format – PDF
- Size – 5 MB
- eBook Pages – 444
The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn PDF eBook
- Inside this Book – What the educators apparently haven’t realized yet is that experiential education is a double-edged sword. If you do something to learn it, then what you do, you learn. All the time you are in school, you learn through experience how to live in a dictatorship. In school you shut your notebook when the bell rings. You do not speak unless granted permission. You are guilty until proven innocent, and who will prove you innocent? You are told what to do, think, and say for six hours each day. If your teacher says sit up and pay attention, you had better stiffen your spine and try to get Bobby or Sally or the idea of Spring or the play you’re writing off of your mind. The most constant and thorough thing students in school experience—and learn—is the antithesis of democracy. When I was in sixth grade, I had the good fortune to learn that democracy in the “real world” is not a crime, at the same time that I learned (not for the first time) that democracy in schools is a crime. Two of my friends and I were disgusted by the state of our school lunches. After finding mold on the rolls one day and being generally fed up with the cardboard taste of things, we decided to take action. Stephanie and Stacey started a petition. Its purpose was a bit misspelled and unclear, but at the top it said something that meant, “Sign below if you are tired of revolting lunches, and put a check by your name if your roll was moldy on Tuesday.” People signed the petition during lunch; we had three pages or so of sloppy signatures on wrinkly notebook paper.
- Full Book Name – The Teenage Liberation Handbook
- Author of this Book – Grace Llewellyn
- Language – English
- Book Genre – Non-Fiction
- Download Format – PDF
- Size – 5 MB
- eBook Pages – 444
