Why Thinking ‘Outside the Box’ Is Not So Easy
(And Why Present Reform Efforts Will Fail)
In the fall of 1987, the Associated Press carried a story from Tacoma, Wash., about a boy “penned in a coffin-sized box for two years because his stepgrandmother feared he was brain-damaged.”
Two years in a box! Did the kid scream to get out? Feel abused? Unhappy? No. When he was let out, according to the news item, “he was amazed to learn not all children are shut up in the same way.”
The boy illustrated, literally, the difficulty of...
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