# \#taking-children-seriously **URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/tag/taking-children-seriously/50.md [Latest](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/tags.md) --- ## [TCS Is Bad](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/tcs-is-bad/1504)
**Author:** [@anonymous70](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/anonymous70)\ **Replies:** 38\ **Last updated:** [August 27, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/tcs-is-bad/1504 "2025-08-27T18:55:44Z")
Topic Summary: Link to TCS criticism. Goal: Sharing. CF relevance: It’s about TCS. Do you want unbounded criticism? OK but I’m just sharing a link so the critical discussion would be about the articles, not directed … --- ## [Montessori Schools](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/montessori-schools/1564)
**Author:** [@deroj](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/deroj)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [December 22, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/montessori-schools/1564 "2022-12-22T20:21:39Z")
Rand seemed to have a positive view of the Montessori system (from “Don’t Let It Go”, Philosophy: Who Needs It): The middle class has created an antidote which is perhaps the most hopeful movement of recent years: the… --- ## [How I Misunderstood TCS](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/how-i-misunderstood-tcs/1506)
**Author:** [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 1, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/how-i-misunderstood-tcs/1506 "2022-10-01T17:27:53Z")
--- ## [formerTCSer's TCS Meta Thread](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/formertcsers-tcs-meta-thread/407)
**Author:** [@formerTCSer](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/formerTCSer)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [September 30, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/formertcsers-tcs-meta-thread/407 "2022-09-30T01:24:22Z")
Topic Summary: I am planning on discussing TCS on the forum. My plan is to start a separate thread for each article that I want to reply to, or for each main idea I want to talk about. I want to use this thread as a plac… --- ## [Discussion of “Is TCS Revolutionary?”](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/discussion-of-is-tcs-revolutionary/409)
**Author:** [@alanforr](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/alanforr)\ **Replies:** 12\ **Last updated:** [November 21, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/discussion-of-is-tcs-revolutionary/409 "2021-11-21T19:17:00Z")
Continuing the discussion from TCS and Coercion: Topic Summary: This is a discussion of David Deutsch’s article Is TCS Revolutionary. Goal: My goal is to improve my understanding of problems with TCS as advocated by … --- ## [TCS and Coercion](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/tcs-and-coercion/403)
**Author:** [@lmf](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/lmf)\ **Replies:** 54\ **Last updated:** [November 14, 2021, 2:57am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/tcs-and-coercion/403 "2021-11-14T02:57:10Z")
The following is tangential, but I think it will ultimately tie back into the YesNo stuff, so I won’t make it a new thread. I have questions about coercion. By coercion I’m referring to the definition that the Popper p… --- ## [Analysis of David Deutsch’s The Final Prejudice](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/analysis-of-david-deutsch-s-the-final-prejudice/398)
**Author:** [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [November 10, 2021, 3:48am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/analysis-of-david-deutsch-s-the-final-prejudice/398 "2021-11-10T03:48:38Z")
My analysis is highly critical. --- ## [David Deutsch and Sarah Fitz-Claridge Publish Misquotes](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/david-deutsch-and-sarah-fitz-claridge-publish-misquotes/216)
**Author:** [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 25, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/david-deutsch-and-sarah-fitz-claridge-publish-misquotes/216 "2021-06-25T18:07:33Z")
I’ve discovered that Deutsch and Fitz-Claridge have shared misquotes, including a bunch in The Beginning of Infinity. Their scholarship cannot be trusted. There’s a bunch of research about DD book quotes in the comment… --- ## [TCS claimed that approximately all coercion is intentionally caused by another person](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/tcs-claimed-that-approximately-all-coercion-is-intentionally-caused-by-another-person/215)
**Author:** [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [June 24, 2021, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/tcs-claimed-that-approximately-all-coercion-is-intentionally-caused-by-another-person/215 "2021-06-24T10:33:28Z")
Sarah Lawrence (who later changed her last name to Fitz-Claridge) wrote to TCS list on 1996-03-18: Acting on one theory while a conflicting theory remains active in one’s mind \[which TCS calls “coercion”\] is not a stat… --- ## [Criticizing TCS on Self-Sacrifice](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/criticizing-tcs-on-self-sacrifice/118)
**Author:** [@Elliot](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Elliot)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [May 27, 2021, 11:23pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/criticizing-tcs-on-self-sacrifice/118 "2021-05-27T23:23:07Z")
In 2002, I wrote an email criticizing Taking Children Seriously (TCS) regarding self-sacrifice. This was around 7 months after I found TCS. No one defended TCS. Already, by that date, TCS’s founders, Sarah and DD, were l…