Article: A STUDENT LEAVES SCHOOL TO TEACH HERSELF

Kendall Hailey made her first solemn vow at 15: to be an autodidact -- a self-taught person. The day she received a summer reading list from her school in North Hollywood, she says, she decided to manage her own education.

"Mandatory," is her least favorite word, she says, "and being told what to read during the summer suddenly made me realize that I don't really like being told what to read during the fall, winter and spring, either."

Hailey wrote a book about her education and titled it "The Day I Became an Autodidact, and the Advice, Adventures and Acrimonies that Befell Me Thereafter." She was in Boston recently to tout the book. She has become a writer, has flirted with the idea ...

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