But I worry that we have both oversanitized and overpathologized childhood, raising our children in the equivalent of a padded cell, with no way to injure themselves but also no means to ready themselves for the world.

J’ose espérer que l’éducation aura droit à la cure de rajeunissement dont elle a tant besoin, avec non seulement l’adjonction de pratiques thérapeutiques pour soutenir les enfants dans leur développement émotionnel, mais aussi la liberté de courir partout, de s’égratigner les genoux et de connaître toutes sortes de difficultés.

Teach children how to bootstrap their own program, so that they can be individually conscious. The tension that we have described between culture and consciousness has an analog during development. Trying to teach children precisely how to be adults, by inculcating them solely with the cultural rules that have come before, will fail. In a world of