Have you ever considered, to begin with, how different you are from other people, and how different other people are from one another? If so, you are ahead of the introduction of this book, which claims most curiously that: “We think and behave as though we were all the same.” But what Remo Largo really means is that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to human flourishing, including education. That sounds agreeable in the abstract, though it is based on some debatable assumptions and leads to some odd recommendations. His decades studying child development have inspired him to formulate what he calls the Fit Principle: “Every human, with their individual needs and talents, strives to live in harmony with their environment.” To the extent that they are supported in doing so, they can live a good life. Happily the author, an eminent Swiss paediatrician, does not himself quite make such a claim.
W hat is the right way for human beings to live? The question is as old as human beings, and it would be extremely surprising if after all this time someone had come up with what the blurb for this book calls “a new theory of human thriving”.
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