Of course the brilliant rhetorical strategy of such a 'philosophy' is that it implies that all the rest of us louts are NOT taking children seriously. *sigh* --
MichaelTinkler
My sister in law raises her kid by letting the six year old makes all the decisions. The kid only eat hamburgers and candy and nothing else, she watches TV instead of doing homework.
I guess even Tarzen got disciplined by his ape mother. Such hands-off policy described here is anti-educational. IMHO, it is plainly irresponsible to leave decisions to children because they lack the experience to tell what is good or bad in the long run.
How this works out for the children is a matter that should be addressed in the article. Also what about the laws requiring schooling? --rmhermen
Who advocates TCS? Is
Taking Children Seriously the title of a book? Is it always referred to with all caps ("Taking Children Seriously"), or is that just the title of a book? I think we should always strive to give the context in which theories are advocated; they don't exist in some
Platonic realm, in my opinion, but are created and advocated by people, and it helps a lot to know who has advocated the theories. What does it mean to say that TCS "has close ties to the philosophy of Karl Popper"? What kind of close ties? --
LMS
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