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Taking Children Seriously

disobedience

Punishment as a teaching tool

Punishment has a very high risk of destroying not only the desire, but also the ability to learn.

Blind obedience, thoughtful obedience, ‘cooperation’

Obeying, including ‘cooperating’ that is not wholeheartedly chosen with perfect freedom to choose otherwise, is violating one’s own standards.

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