Taking Children Seriously

Taking Children Seriously is an educational movement founded by Sarah Lawrence, David Deutsch, and [Kolya Wolf]?, based upon the idea that children can be educated without imposing that education upon them against their will. Lawrence publishes a journal of that name, and maintains a mailing list and [website].

TCS posits that children should be brought up entirely without coercion, in a way that is more similar to how adults are educated. Children of TCS parents choose whether or not to go to school. Often they homeschool or unschool.

Lawrence claims that much of her philosophy is inspired by the writings of Karl Popper, and more specifically that aspects of Popper's epistemology can be viewed as a psychology of human learning, though Popper himself never made that analogy, though he did write about the failures of educational methods common in his time.

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