Length4h 13m
About this audiobook
A Treatise on Parents and Children is a classic family studies/parenting guide by the great Irish writer George Bernard Shaw that examines the parent/child relationship and contains the following excerpt: Childhood is a stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the Life Stuff by which the human race is perpetuated. The Life Force either will not or cannot achieve immortality except in very low organisms: indeed it is by no means ascertained that even the amoeba is immortal. Human beings visibly wear out, though they last longer than their friends the dogs. Turtles, parrots, and elephants are believed to be capable of outliving the memory of the oldest human inhabitant. But the fact that new ones are born conclusively proves that they are not immortal. Do away with death and you do away with the need for birth: in fact if you went on breeding, you would finally have to kill old people to make room for young ones. (Amazon)
Audiobook details
GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length4 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PARENTS AND CHILDREN
33Technical Instruction
2The Child is Father to the Man
34Docility and Dependence
3What is a Child?
35The Abuse of Docility
4The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
36The Schoolboy and the Homeboy
5The Manufacture of Monsters
37The Comings of Age of Children
Show all chaptersShow less
6Small and Large Families
38The Conflict of Wills
7Children as Nuisances
39The Demagogue's Opportunity
8Child Fanciers
40Our Quarrelsomeness
9Childhood as a State of Sin
41We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves
10School
42The Pursuit of Manners
11My Scholastic Acquirements
43Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
12Schoolmasters of Genius
44Wanted: a Child's Magna Charta
13What We Do Not Teach, and Why
45The Pursuit of Learning
14Taboo in Schools
46Children and Game: a Proposal
15Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools
47The Parents' Intolerable Burden
16What is to be Done?
48Mobilization
17Children's Rights and Duties
49Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs
18Should Children Earn their Living?
50How Little We Know About Our Parents
19Children's Happiness
51Our Abandoned Mothers
20The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday
52Family Affection
21University Schoolboyishness
53The Fate of the Family
22The New Laziness
54Family Mourning
23The Infinite School Task
55Art Teaching
24The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
56The Impossibility of Secular Education
25English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
57Natural Selection as a Religion
26The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
58Moral Instruction Leagues
27The Common Sense of Toleration
59The Bible
28The Sin of Athanasius
60Artist Idolatry
29The Experiment Experimenting
61"The Machine"
30Why We Loathe Learning and Love Sport
62The Provocation to Anarchism
31Antichrist
63Imagination
32Under the Whip
64Government by Bullies
Series
More from Bernard Shaw
The PhilandererBernard Shaw2h 57m$2.30
OverruledBernard Shaw1h 31m$2.30
Arms and the ManBernard Shaw2h 52m$2.30
Mrs. Warren's ProfessionBernard Shaw3h 54m$2.30
Cashel Byrons BerufBernard Shaw12h 14m$2.30
The Intelligent Woman's Guide To Socialism And CapitalismBernard Shaw25h 8m$2.40
Saint JoanBernard Shaw6h 16m$2.30
KünstlerliebeBernard Shaw16h 48m$2.30
Der gesunde Menschenverstand im Krieg Band I und IIBernard Shaw4h 8m$2.30
Androcles and the LionBernard Shaw1h 52m$2.30
Die törichte HeiratBernard Shaw17h 3m$2.30
Der Amateur-SozialistBernard Shaw11h 24m$2.30
Back to Methuselah, A Metabiological PentateuchBernard Shaw12h 43m$2.30
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ultimate Collection: ALL 38 Plays & Complete PoetryWilliam Shakespeare152h 46m$2 · $0.00
C. S. LewisC. S. Lewis38h 55m$30
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn21h 56m$46 · $0.00
Charles Dickens: Complete WorksCharles Dickens814h 50m$2 · $0.00
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Novels, Short Stories and Autobiographical WritingsFyodor Dostoyevsky271h 27m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, Patrick & Branwell BrontëCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë138h 12m$1 · $0.00
L. M. Montgomery – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & MemoirsLucy Maud Montgomery155h 55m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Books of F. Scott Fitzgerald (all his 5 novels + all 4 short story collections published during his lifetime)F. Scott Fitzgerald87h 53m$2 · $0.00
MARK TWAIN: 12 Novels, 195 Short Stories, Autobiography, 10 Travel Books, 160+ Essays & Speeches (Illustrated)Mark Twain416h 24m$2 · $0.00
The Great Gatsby: Original 1925 Edition (An F. Scott Fitzgerald Classic NovelFrancis Scott Fitzgerald4h 45m$18 · $0.00
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen & Brontë SistersCharlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen204h 24m$2 · $0.00
Louisa May Alcott: 16 Novels in One Volume (Illustrated Edition)Louisa May Alcott141h 35m$2 · $0.00
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin2h 25m$15
The Complete Works of Oscar WildeOscar Wilde80h 38m$1 · $0.00
The Count of Monte Cristo + The Three Musketeers + The Man in the Iron Mask (3 Unabridged Classics)Alexandre Dumas100h 13m$2 · $0.00
Betty Crocker picture cooky bookBetty Crocker, Inc. General Mills2h 13m$2 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m$29 · $0.00
Richard Wagamese SelectedRichard Wagamese3h 14m$15
Shōgun, Part OneJames Clavell24h 19m$35
Under His ProtectionB. Love5h 7m$15
Heart of IronC. M. Alongi15h 24m$30
Ethic IIAshley Antoinette9h 1m$20
RiversnowTess Thompson8h 11m$20
Supreme ClienteleAshley & JaQuavis8h 58m$20
Body Refinement in a Beast Tamer’s World, Book 1Seth Ring14h 7m$27
Hell Divers XII: HeroesNicholas Sansbury Smith13h 18m$27
EmberJeffrey Wilson, Brian Andrews13h 58m$23
The Complete Works of Jane Austen (Unabridged)Jane Austen88h 8m$1 · $0.00
Beyond Temptation & Risky PleasuresBrenda Jackson10h 53m$24 · $0.00
Shōgun, Part TwoJames Clavell29h 16m$40
Showdown in the Big EasyCharles Tillman, Michael Anderle, Martha Carr7h 37m$23
Searching For ThanksgivingS.E. Smith4h 24m$20
Naughty 4Brenda Hampton7h 30m$17
The Dance with Me TrilogyShelley Shepard Gray21h 44m$35
The DopemanJaQuavis Coleman5h 25m$20
Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate CollectionArthur Conan Doyle59h 49m$5 · $0.00
My Favorite Husband, Vol. 1Hollywood 360, CBS Radio5h 40m$14
WhistlerAnn Patchett10h 45m5 (1)$29 · $0.00
Grand Opening 2Carl Weber9h 16m$20
You may also like
Nationalism & LettersRabindranath Tagore3h 18m$2.30
The Source and Aim of Human Progress (A study in social psychology and social pathology)Boris Sidis3h 15m$2 · $0.00
Your Art Will Save Your LifeBeth Pickens2h 23m$15 · $0.00
U. G. Krishnamurti: Collected WorksU. G. Krishnamurti37h 7m$1 · $0.00
Ojai 1949 Fourteen Public Talks - Volume 6J.Krishnamurti48m$7 · $0.00
The True BelieverEric Hoffer5h 17m$24 · $0.00
Braving the TruthRachel Held Evans11h 31m$29 · $0.00
The Beauty of Being WeirdSergi Rufi7h 10m$24 · $0.00
Anti-Racist AllySophie Williams1h 25m$16 · $0.00
Du Bois: EssaysW.E.B. Du Bois6h 23m$1 · $0.00
1922-2022Carolina Esser, Mhardoqueu G. Lima França6h 20m$12 · $0.00
The Christian MindHarry Blamires5h 58m$14 · $0.00
We're Not BrokenEric Garcia7h 53m$26 · $0.00
The End of AverageTodd Rose6h 32m$24 · $0.00
GratefulDiana Butler Bass7h 51m$26 · $0.00
Raising VictimsLeonydus Johnson6h 33m$17 · $0.00
QualifiedShari Dunn9h 58m$29 · $0.00
The Multi-Hyphen LifeEmma Gannon6h 11m$17
A Politics of LoveMarianne Williamson5h 31m$24 · $0.00
How to Write Like a WriterThomas C. Foster8h 13m$26 · $0.00