Jesper Jensen,Søren Hansen

The Little Red Schoolbook

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When it first appeared in the 1970s, The Little Red Schoolbook was banned by the UK authorities, which confiscated copies and prosecuted the publisher under the Obscene Publications Act. Why? Because this little book aimed to educate teenagers about democracy, sex and drugs – in frank, simple language – and encouraged them to view adults as “paper tigers”.

The Little Red Schoolbook has been unavailable for more than 40 years, but it remains surprisingly relevant for young people today. Reissued here in its original and uncensored format, with informative footnotes and a new foreword by the surviving author Søren Hansen, it encourages teenagers to have the confidence to seek information for themselves, challenge authority and question the status quo.
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  • b0530504231has quoted8 years ago
    Timetables can also be worked out so that pupils are divided not according to their ages but according to individual progress in each subject (but see Streaming, page 88).
  • b0530504231has quoted8 years ago
    If you have to do as you’re told all the time, all you learn is to be obedient and not to question things. You learn not to think.
  • b0530504231has quoted8 years ago
    Instead of helping you develop as an individual, schools have to teach you the things our economic system needs you to know. They have to teach you to obey authority rather than to question things, just as the exam system encourages you to conform, not to be an individual. And teachers and others who are against this system can’t do much about it on their own

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