The manifesto of the Taking Children Seriously movement — applying Karl Popper's epistemology and David Deutsch's educational philosophy to argue that children should never be coerced.
TCS epistemology: children, like adults, are fallible theory-makers trying to understand the world. Coercion (forcing them to do things they don't consent to) imposes bad theories rather than enabling knowledge growth. The TCS alternative: find consensual solutions to parent-child conflicts — neither parent nor child is forced to act against their will. Rooted in Popperian falsificationism and Deutsch's epistemology of the child. Represents the libertarian/rationalist edge of alternative education.
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