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
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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
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