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Beyond Control
Raising Thinkers in an Age of Compliance
by Melvin Brown
For people who'd rather think than comply. A philosophical case, through the lens of parenting, that a generation raised primarily for compliance is losing something real — and what a few are quietly choosing instead.
Beyond Control traces how compliance becomes the unspoken curriculum — at home, at school, and inside the devices we hand our children — what it costs, and what a handful of educators are quietly choosing instead. It argues for formation over management: raising people who can think, not just obey. Plain prose. No twelve-step program.
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Catalog data
- Publication date
- September 16, 2025
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 5.5 × 8.5 in
- Weight
- 14 oz
- Binding
- Hardcover, smyth-sewn
- BISAC
- EDU040000 · PHI005000 · FAM034000
- Publisher
- Cordelyn LLC
- ISBN
- Registering
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| Format | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | registering | $24.00 |
| Paperback | registering | $16.00 |
| Ebook | registering | $9.99 |
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