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)
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length4 hrs 13 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PARENTS AND CHILDREN
2The Child is Father to the Man
3What is a Child?
4The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
5The Manufacture of Monsters
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6Small and Large Families
7Children as Nuisances
8Child Fanciers
9Childhood as a State of Sin
10School
11My Scholastic Acquirements
12Schoolmasters of Genius
13What We Do Not Teach, and Why
14Taboo in Schools
15Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools
16What is to be Done?
17Children's Rights and Duties
18Should Children Earn their Living?
19Children's Happiness
20The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday
21University Schoolboyishness
22The New Laziness
23The Infinite School Task
24The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
25English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
26The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
27The Common Sense of Toleration
28The Sin of Athanasius
29The Experiment Experimenting
30Why We Loathe Learning and Love Sport
31Antichrist
32Under the Whip
33Technical Instruction
34Docility and Dependence
35The Abuse of Docility
36The Schoolboy and the Homeboy
37The Comings of Age of Children
38The Conflict of Wills
39The Demagogue's Opportunity
40Our Quarrelsomeness
41We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves
42The Pursuit of Manners
43Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
44Wanted: a Child's Magna Charta
45The Pursuit of Learning
46Children and Game: a Proposal
47The Parents' Intolerable Burden
48Mobilization
49Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs
50How Little We Know About Our Parents
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