Infinite Tolerance vs Zero Tolerance

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/apr/11/right-way-to-raise-children

Interesting article about whether 'tough love' or 'infinite love' is the best way to get through to inner city school drop outs. Some interesting comparisons to non-coercive education can be made.

The one statement that stands out to me and seems to sum up why the problems in education are constantly perpetuated is this:

'...I began to wonder why, having survived a disciplinarian childhood that had made them so angry, they thought the solution lay in recreating it.' (talking about Ray Lewis' militaristic method of educating violent young black kids).