We came together as serious musicians-Mr. My high school choir experience was by far my best experience, and basically kept me sane for those last three years. I should add, though, that of course there were highlights along the way.
So I decided, "I'll be a teacher, and my students will have a wonderful time with me." I thought school was boring simply because my teachers were unintelligent, lazy, and uncreative. I didn't particularly like school, daydreamed constantly about the weekend or summer vacation, and had a sort of arrogant attitude-I felt superior, intellectually, to many of my teachers-but I didn't even begin to develop a real critique of school while I was still in it. I went to public school, did very well, got along with most of my teachers and the other students, was respected but generally only on the fringes of the popular crowd (much to my consternation, until I was about 16 when I stopped caring). I thought we should start at the beginning of your story, for readers who may not have read your books. What brought Grace Llewellyn to the place where she began writing to teenagers about taking command of their lives and all the other things she does to support kids to take that step? I'll let her tell you. With wisdom that seems to spring from within, Grace has become a staunch advocate for the freedom and self-direction to be gained by anyone, especially teens, when they take control of their own learning and live a life of conviction, passion, and importance. Her views on school come from several years spent teaching in both public and private classrooms. Grace Llewellyn is 34 years old, married to Skip "and no-big sigh-we don't have kids" she says. In this and her other two published books, Real Lives and Freedom Challenge:African American Homeschoolers, Grace writes with a wit, irreverence, and confidence that would convince anyone to leave school and forge out on their own.īefore I read her books and got to know her, I had an image of a 50-ish mom with several kids whom she homeschooled successively through teenager-hood and went on to write a book to let the rest of us know the wisdom she had to share.
This is just one of my many favorite quotes from the first of her books.
"Perhaps school's greatest danger is that it may convince you life is nothing more than an institutionalized rat race," writes Grace Llewellyn in The Teenage Liberation Handbook. Interview with Grace Llewellyn: Champion of the Unschooled
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