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> We didn’t want simply to step in as teachers with a new set of rules about how the children could use Legos, exchanging one set of authoritarian rules with an

> We didn’t want simply to step in as teachers with a new set of rules about how the children could use Legos, exchanging one set of authoritarian rules with another. Ann suggested removing the Legos from the classroom. This bold decision would demonstrate our discomfort with the issues we saw at play in Legotown. I have no words. How oblivious do you have to be to put these sentences together in this order?

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Inityx 5y ago
Those sentences are not contradictory... Dictating new rules for an activity and taking time away from the activity to reflect on it are absolutely not the same thing.
- lordloki 5y ago
  They are both authoritarian.
- int_19h 5y ago
  Their rationale was that they didn't want to "exchange one set of authoritarian rules with another", but that's exactly what removing the activity did - it's just that the new set of authoritarian rules was, "no Legos".
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