“While we can lament the years children may have needlessly suffered through the expectations and limitations of dominant society, today will always be the best day to change the context.” ParentingUnschoolingSelf Directed EducationYouth Liberation Author:Antonio Buehler, Trust Kids
“The ways that teenagers are - the supposedly immutable patterns of behavior culturally ascribed to teens - exist within society in which they are oppressed, stripped of power, surveilled (by parents or other guardians, schools, and by police), criminalized, and controlled. I would suggest that basing our understanding of teenage behavior on a population existing under oppression, shut away from the rest of society in schools, with very little power or freedom, does not represent an accurate picture of what teens are innately like. I would also suggest that much of what is cast as "bad" behavior is not inherently bad; it's simply inconvenient or dangerous to power.” OppressionTeensTeenagersAgeismYouth CultureOppression QuotesYouth LiberationTeens And BehaviorTeenage Behavior Author:Idzie Desmarais
“What is needed is true child liberation, true autonomy, true trust and respect, because children deserve these things by right of being people. There doesn't have to be--there shouldn't be--any justification needed, any future use to be extracted from them, for children to be deserving of liberation.” AnarchyUnschoolingYouth LiberationTrust Kids Author:Idzie Desmarais, Trust Kids