Kids can be asked to help solve them in exchange for the respect and attention of the adult world. Good for kids, good for the rest of us. They reduced the number of unwanted Swedish children from 6,000 in 1976 to fifteen in 1986. So it can be done. We can, too.
Family is the main engine of education.
The curriculum of family is at the heart of any good life. We've gotten away from that curriculum-ifs time to return to it. That was my real purpose in sending the girl and her mother down the Jersey coast to meet the police chief. I have many ideas to make a family curriculum, and my guess is that a lot of you will have many ideas, too, once you begin to think about it. Our greatest problem in getting the kind of grassroots thinking going that could reform schooling is that we have large, vested interests profiting from schooling just exactly as it is, despite rhetoric to the contrary.