Children who learn that truth is personally discoverable become less authoritarian

Evidence

Unlike Hugh, Lou did not learn from her mother and father that Truth was in the bag, or in a book. Instead, it was hers to discover. Her parents offered her guidance, but basically she had to question and decide things for herself. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1046

Categorization

• DEFINE: Contrasts two parenting epistemologies — truth as inherited certainty vs. truth as personal discovery — that map onto authoritarian vs. egalitarian development.
• XREF: connects to: Physical classroom movement dismantles the desk’s implied hierarchy of truth — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 259; Children’s questioning of unjustified authority is inherently punk — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 350