![]() ![]() The book itself is probably a pretty good filter for whether the idea of self-education is a match for a young person. This is a dense, packed book, overflowing with ideas, tips, anecdotes, cautions, and multiple views - all speaking to the teen and not to parents. ![]() Today as the quality of the average public education declines these ideas are not as extreme as when the book was first written in 1991, but they still aren’t as accepted and common as they should be either. Along the way they develop a better idea of themselves and many more life skills then they would in formal school. In short they are designing their own self-education, where ever it may happen. They can remain at school, or as a homeschool take only some classes, or find apprenticeships, volunteer, or even skip directly to college. The purpose of this book is to encourage the teen to make their education their own responsibility. As a college dropout myself, I am sympathetic to alternatives to school. Yet informal homeschoolers and unschoolers are outside of that measurement, and by most accounts are doing super. This is a dangerous thing to give to your child, because there is a significant correlation between amount of formal education and almost any outcome you care about, including longevity, divorce and poverty rates. ![]() It tries to persuade teenagers to drop out of high school - in order to “get a real life and education” as its subtitle says. ![]()
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