Abscissa’s Page

Filed under the category of “Things I’ve been saying all along, but no one’s been willing to believe”:

“Young people have extraordinary potential that is often not expressed because teens are infantilized and isolated from adults.”
- Scientific American Reports, June 2007, page 73

“Laws restricting the behavior of young people (under age 18) have grown rapidly in the past century…U.S. teens have 10 times as many restrictions as adults, twice as many as active-duty U.S. Marines and twice as many as incarcerated felons.”
- Scientific American Reports, June 2007, page 72