Grace Llewellyn > Quotes

“Learning is not a product of teaching. Kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They’re basically little scientists. If we don’t stop that process, it will continue.”
― Grace Llewellyn

“The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.”
― Grace Llewellyn, The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

“According to Educator’s Newsletter, eighty percent of us have high self-esteem in first grade; by twelfth grade only five percent of us still feel good about ourselves. As the Luno newsletter comments, those statistics raise “the possibility that school is the biggest mental health problem we’ve ever known.”
― Grace Llewellyn, The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

“In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: forget about it. Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it. One day, you will glance up at your collection of Japanese literature, or trip over the solar oven you built, and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.”
― Grace Llewellyn