error correction – Taking Children Seriously

Free to learn: the immorality of compulsory schools

Criticism scheduling and privacy

Unwanted criticism can cripple thinking, destroying the means of error correction and the growth of knowledge.

Surely it is cruel to force people to live with the consequences of the ideas and preferences they had when they were children?

What is the psychological impact of not taking children seriously?

Are you advocating that the children should rule the parents?!

How can I drop the anti-rational part of my mind that interferes with me taking my children seriously?

If anti-rational memes are compelling me to coerce my children, what hope is there?!

Why does it sometimes hurt to think about Taking Children Seriously?

“What if…?” questions revisited

Who am I to criticise someone else?

How do you intervene non-coercively when one child is attacking another?

Is it necessary to reject authority?

What do you have against coercion?

Taking Children Seriously: a new view of children

Taking Children Seriously is a new VIEW of children – a non-paternalistic view: children do not actually need to be controlled for their own good. An Oxford Karl Popper Society talk.

Is Taking Children Seriously revolutionary?

Taking Children Seriously is neither utopian nor revolutionary. It is fallibilist and respects tradition as well as the growth of knowledge.