DARE was misguided as soon as they adopted our material, because we were off base,' Hansen told me. Bill Colson, a world-renowned psychologist, developed the very theories that formed the basis of Hansen's research. Even Abe Maslow wrote and spoke of his theories being wrong before he died. Boulder psychotherapist Ellen Maslow, Abe Maslow's daughter, told me DARE is 'nonsense' based on a gross misinterpretation of her father's vision of humanistic psychology. Fixing it, or re-naming the program, won't help.
Schools are for filling minds with knowledge.
What goes in comes out. We teach math so students will use math. We teach reading so students will read. Yet we want to teach drugs, so students will shun them. It doesn't make sense.