We shouldn’t disregard the ideas that come from teens’ developing brains
Popular Science February 28, 2018
Filed in: Learning & Education
Center board member Dr. Nicholas Allen explains why we should listen to adolescents. “What adolescents bring to a situation is this capacity for innovation and new thinking and for experimentation,” he says. “That is absolutely critical to culture. If we don’t have that, then culture remains the same.”
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