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Misapprehensions about Taking Children Seriously (part 2/2)
The misapprehension that Taking Children Seriously means overriding your inner wisdom
The misapprehension that “problems are soluble” implies any kind of guarantee that any given problem will be solved—and the misapprehension that if you fail to solve every problem perfectly you are bad and wrong
The misapprehension that children being taken seriously are better at detecting coercion
The misapprehension that Taking Children Seriously means the children ruling the parents
“What is the psychological impact of not taking children seriously?”
The misapprehension that taking children seriously means not influencing them
The misapprehension that Taking Children Seriously implies that coercion is always wrong
My heavenly-horrific vision of Taking Children Seriously
The misapprehension that Taking Children Seriously is about replacing coercion with discrete problem-solving
The misapprehension that anti-rational memes mean there is no hope
The “if you disagree with me, ipso facto you are irrational” misapprehension
The misapprehension that taking children seriously means fetishising explicit communication and ignoring any inexplicit communication that seems inconsistent with the explicit words being spoken
The misapprehension that because there is no growth of knowledge without criticism, all criticism including unwanted criticism is valuable. (In fact, unwanted criticism is coercive education, which impedes the growth of knowledge.)
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