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	WHAT IS TEEN LIBERATION? Teen liberation is about learning how to act and think independently, beyond the institutions that fill our lives. In America today, the average young person is institutionalized at an early age: First in daycares and kindergartens, then in schools, hospitals, jails and shopping malls. Youth liberation is the process by which we refuse such institutionalization because it is unhealthy - it forces us into a narrowly defined conformity, hindering our personal growth and often damaging our ability and desire to learn. Youth liberation takes many forms: the various homeschooling movements; alternative open, free, and Montessori schools; youth activism against corporations and governments; self education networks and much more. Essays About Youth Liberation Instead of Education by John Holt The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto - What school is really teaching us. Dinosaur Homeschool by By Donna Nichols-White - A black homeschooling mother refutes common objections to homeschooling. We will soon be posting more essays by homeschoolers, parents, teachers and others describing youth liberation in more detail. Until then, read Grace Llewelyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook, and John Taylor Gatto's Dumbing Us Down, both of which are available at ARISE! bookstore (see address below) * Teen Liberation c/o ARISE! 2441 Lyndale Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55404 * * 1800MYYAHOO mailbox # 612-8336542 * teenlib@lycos.com *