Treatise on Parents and Children eBook

George Bernard Shaw

Table of Contents
Section	Page

Start of eBook	1
PARENTS AND CHILDREN	1
The Child is Father to the Man	2
The Sin of Nadab and Abihu	5
The Manufacture of Monsters	7
Small and Large Families	7
Children as Nuisances	8
Child Fanciers	11
Childhood as a State of Sin	12
School	12
My Scholastic Acquirements	15
Schoolmasters of Genius	15
What We Do Not Teach, and Why	18
Taboo in Schools	19
Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools	21
Children’s Rights and Duties	22
Children’s Happiness	23
The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday	24
University Schoolboyishness	25
The New Laziness	26
The Infinite School Task	26
The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge	28
English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice	29
The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness	29
The Common Sense of Toleration	30
The Sin of Athanasius	32
The Experiment Experimenting	34
Why We Loathe Learning and Love Sport	35
Antichrist	36
Under the Whip	37
Technical Instruction	40
Docility and Dependence	40
The Abuse of Docility	41
The Schoolboy and the Homeboy	43
The Comings of Age of Children	44
The Conflict of Wills	44
The Demagogue’s Opportunity	46
Our Quarrelsomeness	47
We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves	47
The Pursuit of Manners	48
Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother	49
Wanted: a Child’s Magna Charta	50
The Pursuit of Learning	51
Children and Game: a Proposal	51
The Parents’ Intolerable Burden	52
Mobilization	53
Children’s Rights and Parents’ Wrongs	55
How Little We Know About Our Parents	56
Our Abandoned Mothers	57
Family Affection	57
The Fate of the Family	60
Family Mourning	61
Art Teaching	62
The Impossibility of Secular Education	65
Natural Selection as a Religion	67
Moral Instruction Leagues	68
The Bible	69
Artist Idolatry	71
The Provocation to Anarchism	72
Imagination	74
Government by Bullies	75

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