Taking Children Seriously

Taking Children Seriously is an educational movement founded by Sarah Lawrence, David Deutsch, and [Kolya Wolf]?, based upon the idea that it is possible and desirable to raise and educate children without doing anything to them against their will and without making them do anything against their will. Lawrence [1] publishes a journal of that name, and maintains a mailing list and [website].

TCS posits that children should be brought up entirely without coercion, and that they have the same rights as adults. Children of TCS parents choose whether or not to go to school. Often they homeschool or unschool.

Lawrence says that much of her philosophy is inspired by the epistemology of Karl Popper, and and that TCS provides a link between Popper's epistemology and the psychology of human learning. She says that Popper himself never made this connection between his epistemology and its implications for educational theory and parenting.

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