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A Treatise on Parents and Children

A Treatise on Parents and Children

by Bernard Shaw

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Author
Shaw, Bernard, 1856-1950
Title
Treatise on Parents and Children
Credits
Produced by Ron Burkey, Amy Thomte and David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
Subject
Parent and child
Category
Text
eBook-No.
908
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/908
Release Date
March 22, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A TREATISE ON PARENTS AND CHILDREN
  2. 2.By Bernard Shaw
  3. 3.PARENTS AND CHILDREN
  4. 4.The Child is Father to the Man
  5. 5.What is a Child?
  6. 6.The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
  7. 7.The Manufacture of Monsters
  8. 8.Small and Large Families
  9. 9.Children as Nuisances
  10. 10.Child Fanciers
  11. 11.Childhood as a State of Sin
  12. 12.School
  13. 13.My Scholastic Acquirements
  14. 14.Schoolmasters of Genius
  15. 15.What We Do Not Teach, and Why
  16. 16.Taboo in Schools
  17. 17.Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools
  18. 18.What is to be Done?
  19. 19.Children's Rights and Duties
  20. 20.Should Children Earn their Living?
  21. 21.Children's Happiness
  22. 22.The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday
  23. 23.University Schoolboyishness
  24. 24.The New Laziness
  25. 25.The Infinite School Task
  26. 26.The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
  27. 27.English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
  28. 28.The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
  29. 29.The Common Sense of Toleration
  30. 30.The Sin of Athanasius
  31. 31.The Experiment Experimenting
  32. 32.Why We Loathe Learning and Love Sport
  33. 33.Antichrist
  34. 34.Under the Whip
  35. 35.Technical Instruction
  36. 36.Docility and Dependence
  37. 37.The Abuse of Docility
  38. 38.The Schoolboy and the Homeboy
  39. 39.The Comings of Age of Children
  40. 40.The Conflict of Wills
  41. 41.The Demagogue's Opportunity
  42. 42.Our Quarrelsomeness
  43. 43.We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves
  44. 44.The Pursuit of Manners
  45. 45.Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
  46. 46.Wanted: a Child's Magna Charta
  47. 47.The Pursuit of Learning
  48. 48.Children and Game: a Proposal
  49. 49.The Parents' Intolerable Burden
  50. 50.Mobilization
  51. 51.Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs
  52. 52.How Little We Know About Our Parents
  53. 53.Our Abandoned Mothers
  54. 54.Family Affection
  55. 55.The Fate of the Family
  56. 56.Family Mourning
  57. 57.Art Teaching
  58. 58.The Impossibility of Secular Education
  59. 59.Natural Selection as a Religion
  60. 60.Moral Instruction Leagues
  61. 61.The Bible
  62. 62.Artist Idolatry
  63. 63."The Machine"
  64. 64.The Provocation to Anarchism
  65. 65.Imagination
  66. 66.Government by Bullies

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