In an interview, educator and psychologist Thomas Armstrong says that schools need to do a better job of speaking to--rather than resisting or crushing--adolescents' neurological development. "Essentially, the curriculum in high school needs to be more affective," he argues. "It needs to be more engaging in terms of humor, vitality, joy, and even negative emotions, like strong opinions and anger, to bring out those qualities and channel them, so that they aren't expressed in dangerous ways outside of school."