CFA Institute – Introducing Intelligent Disobedience applied to Child Development and Safety
Keynote by Ira Chaleff on intelligent disobedience applied to child development and safety at CFA Institute, Charlottesville, VA, October 1, 2019
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Keynote by Ira Chaleff on intelligent disobedience applied to child development and safety at CFA Institute, Charlottesville, VA, October 1, 2019
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The bias towards the education of obedience is very insidious. But, observing ourselves and adhering to a given course, we can fulfill a parental and social role in transmitting the necessary cultural norms, without creating models of blind submission to authority out of fear, coercion or habit.
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(By Anya Abdulakh, Founder of 3 House Club and blogger for parents | London) As a mother of 8 and 10 years old children in London, I am more and more thinking how to teach children to say “No”. I am doing my best to teach my children to make the right choices in life but it is very hard to confront peer pressure. I am not sure if my children will be strong enough to say “no” to watching a movie during a sleep-over that would give them nightmares, or “no” to watching a disturbing video on YouTube during a play-date, or “no” to drugs when they are older
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What follows is distilled from an article written by David Lee Finkle or “The Real Mr. Fitz” regarding my statement that “intelligent disobedience must be taught in schools”: … You can’t get students to question and learn intelligent disobedience if you, yourself, are not allowed to question
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Ira Chaleff giving keynote address to 500 teachers from 180 schools and 24 Asian countries on the application of Intelligent Disobedience to child safety and development.
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