Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?
Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores.… - C. Sommerville
Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test scores.…
- C. Sommerville
In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal f… - C. Sommerville
In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal f…
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they t… - C. Sommerville
Ambivalence reaches the level of schizophrenia in our treatment of violence among the young. Parents do not encourage violence, but neither do they t…
The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognitio… - C. Sommerville
The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognitio…
Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depre… - C. Sommerville
Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depre…
Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earl… - C. Sommerville
Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earl…
If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth.But it is as if we … - C. Sommerville
If our entertainment culture seems debased and unsatisfying, the hope is that our children will create something of greater worth.But it is as if we …
Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment. Shame (and praise) h… - C. Sommerville
Without a sense of the shame or guilt of his or her action, the child will only be hardened in rebellion by physical punishment. Shame (and praise) h…
[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-contro… - C. Sommerville
[17th-century] Puritans were the first modern parents. Like many of us, they looked on their treatment of children as a test of their own self-contro…
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