From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Fri Dec 26 1997 - 12:02:33 MST
> Swiss psychotherapist Alice Miller's horrifying book on the subject
> of 'poisonous pedagogy' -- "'For Your Own Good': The Roots of
> Violence in Child-Rearing" (Virago, [1987] -- is an inclusive and
> comprehensive descriptive and explanatory account, which answers the
> basic question: "How would you have to bring up a child, for him or
> her to be a violent adult?"
Anyone who claims to come anywhere close to answering a question
like that can be immediately dismissed as a crackpot. There are
so many completely unstudied and misunderstood aspects of learning,
socialization, genetic predisposition, and blind chance involved
in child-rearing that any claim of any "scientific" result in it
is utterly specious.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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