Sarah Fitz-Claridge
@FitzClaridge
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Fallibilism; freedom; fun; optimism; creativity; chesed. Problems are soluble. Playing with ideas. Possibilities abound! Founder of Taking Children Seriously.
Oxford, England
Joined March 2009
When what some might see as a problem sparks spectacular creativity. 🤸‍♀️🎨🖌️🧠💖 ✨Problems are soluble.✨
Amara Aleman, an artist with vitiligo who once hid her skin, now uses her skin as a canvas to transform her vitiligo into beautiful artworks đź‘Ź
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I was alluding to fallibility and knowledge being conjectural. When a thought feels absolutely TRUE/RIGHT, sometimes one can forget that it is a conjecture that might be mistaken, and thereby potentially deprive oneself of a better idea.
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Apologies, everyone. Dealing with a recent sudden death of a youngish father in our family. Life is (still) short. Sometimes so much shorter than you think. Live now. Love now.
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The latest censorship law “for the children”. Police diligently arresting people saying anything a government official or terrorist (excuse the redundancy) deems offensive. No time to deal with serious crime. Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act
petition.parliament.uk
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.
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The classroom is a distraction from technology. Brief preview of the next episode of ToKCast, with guest Liberty Fitz-Claridge where we discuss the value of voluntary ignorance.
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“When we realize what it is for us to dare, for our own pleasure, even with solemnest purpose of the holiest of pleasures, parenthood, to bring into existence a soul, which must take for our sake its chance of joy or sorrow, how monstrous it seems to assume that the fact that we
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The video reminds me of how flabbergasted a visiting Russian teenager was when (in 1991?) I first took him to our local supermarket. He accused me of having brought him to a “rich person’s shop” and demanded to see a “poor person’s shop”. So I took him to a chain known for rock
Show this video to Zohran. A Cuban seeing Costco for the first time gets emotional witnessing the sheer abundance. People who’ve actually lived under socialism are often the most moved by what markets can create. Capitalism is a miracle, actually.
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SaharTV: “What do you want to do with the atomic bomb?” IRGC soldier: “Put in Israel.” SaharTV: “That is exactly why Israel attacked Iran[’s] nuclear facilities.” IRGC soldier: “The biggest leader of Europe I love with all my heart was Adolf Hitler. [He was] The only good
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My hero, Alex Lifeson, arguing for taking children seriously in 1973! It is a dim view of humanity that parents know what’s best for their children, as if children do not possess an extraordinary range of possibilities and potentials, including the very normal.
Alex Lifeson argues with his parents over his decision to drop out of school, deciding to focus on music and his band Rush, 1973
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In a chapter titled “Taking Coercion Seriously” in his book, Freedom in Chains, 1999, James Bovard says that the preface of any new political philosophy book should state whether the writer idealises government (and its coercion) or not. Similarly, in Kiss Me, 2020, Carlos
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“Reason depends for its clearness and strength upon the cultivation of knowledge. The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited. Hence it follows, 1. That human inventions, and the modes of social existence, are susceptible of perpetual improvement. 2.
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Note to self: TV and movies now deemed “good” just like books. Keep up! What parents now Haidt is anything children do themselves free of the micro-managing monitoring of their parents. Code word: “dopamine”.
Incredible. What was poison 20 years ago (TV and movies) is now good. What’s “really bad” is content that kids can control by themselves (because it gives them a little bit of dopamine.)
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Actually, you are mistaken: school has never been compulsory in Britain. But despite my absolute opposition to compulsory schooling, I can imagine that there may have been some societies in the past in which that institution could have amounted to an improvement over whatever
@FitzClaridge I take seriously the idea (i.e., historical fact) that compulsory schooling has had profound positive effects on societies where it has been implemented well, including your own. Do you take that idea seriously? https://t.co/5VsVOflgo6
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A strong feeling of belief in/certainty about/attachment to an idea you hold does not imply that that idea is more likely to be right. If anything, it is the opposite. Truer ideas do not need to be protected, attached to, believed in. Taking ideas seriously is the opposite of
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Believing in your ideas is not taking ideas seriously.
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You can either believe things OR you can take ideas seriously.
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When you want something for your children that is independent of and impervious to their own wishes for their own lives, you are likely to be propelling them into your vision for them, coercing them along your path for them. This is easy to see when the agenda the parents have
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