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Program 487: The Captive Child

Peter Marin, director of the experimental Pacific High School in Palo Alto, CA, argues that, in order to meet their needs, adolescents must sometimes be released from the bonds of childhood and accepted in and by an adult community, requiring adults to rethink their ideas about childhood and schooling. Aug. 1, 1969. [CSDI program number 487 ; UCSB tape numbers A8081/R7, A8082/R7]

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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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