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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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