CHAPTER TEN

Teaching Intelligent Disobedience: Where Do the Lessons Begin?

WE ARE LEFT WITH THE CLEAR SENSE that there are many benefits to teaching Intelligent Disobedience in human development. How to do so appears to have been given little attention in the formal education stages of that development. Both research and application are scarce. Nevertheless, the subject is important enough for us to begin pulling together elements from different sources that could be used in laying early groundwork for Intelligent Disobedience competence.

As far back as his 1985 commencement speech at Stanford, President Donald Kennedy talked about authority in education. He observed the following:

“We are reminded of one fascinating aspect of guide dog training ...

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