I presume you are already familiar with John Holt's "Escape from Childhood," and Grace Llewellyn's "Teenage Liberation Handbook." A little bit of surfing last night showed me that, unsurprisingly, Jessica Dubroff's mother shares this view, also.
It's entirely likely I would have encouraged Clay to follow this opportunity had it presented itself several years ago... it just hadn't. One of his speeches this year in college (he's been attending since 13) was the injustice of ageism (at both ends of the spectrum); he argued that responsibility and privilege should be given with demonstration of ability, not merely number of days lived.
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Re: Modern Culture and Teenagers PART TWO
Date: 2010-06-15 07:16 pm (UTC)I presume you are already familiar with John Holt's "Escape from Childhood," and Grace Llewellyn's "Teenage Liberation Handbook." A little bit of surfing last night showed me that, unsurprisingly, Jessica Dubroff's mother shares this view, also.
It's entirely likely I would have encouraged Clay to follow this opportunity had it presented itself several years ago... it just hadn't. One of his speeches this year in college (he's been attending since 13) was the injustice of ageism (at both ends of the spectrum); he argued that responsibility and privilege should be given with demonstration of ability, not merely number of days lived.
Thank you for your thoughts!