“Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.” YearsHumansChildrenAgeSocialProcessClassMiddleCenturyMalesBoredomDestructiveMiddle ClassAdolescenceArrangementsSegregationHuman History19th CenturyMiddle Class FamilySweatshops Author:Newt Gingrich
“Liberal hostility to the traditional family helped to undermine centuries of accumulated wisdom and experience about what was best for children and adults. Far from benefiting only men, marriage confers enormous advantages on women and children as well - a fact that has been thrown into sharp relief by its breakdown over the past forty years.” MenYearsWellsChildrenHas BeensFactsPastCenturyAdultsAdvantageEnormousTraditionalReliefThrownFortyHostilityBreakdownOver The PastWisdom And ExperienceTraditional Family Book:Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us Source: Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help and the Rest of Us
“Our task is to educate our children's whole being so they can face the future and make something of it. To achieve this we need to balance education for careers with education for twenty-first century life.” NeedsFirstsChildrenWholeFacesCareersAchieveCenturyBalanceTasksTwentiesOur ChildrenEducate Author:Ken Robinson
“I want the kind of readers who remain children at any cost. I can tell them at a glance: loyalty to that first enchantment guards better than any cosmetic; than any diet, against the insults of age. But alas for such readers, who would huddle safe and sound in the asylum of their credulous enchantment as if in the womb-our enervating century offends them by its chaos, its fidgets of light and space, the host of its excuses for dividing , for rending oneself from others and from oneself.” IfsWantFirstsKindChildrenI CanLightAgeSoundSpaceCenturyReaderCostSafeChaosOneselfExcuseLoyaltyDietsInsultHostGlancesAlasWombCosmeticsAsylumsEnchantmentDividingSafe And Sound Author:Jean Cocteau
“I'm definitely a child of the 21st century and I prefer texting to phone calls, but I would prefer an answering machine over all.” ChildrenCenturyMachinesPhones21st CenturyPhone CallsTextingAnswering Machines Author:Brendan Dooling
“[Nineteenth century American educator] Catharine Beecher is really associated with the idea that a mother works with children in the home and a teacher works with children at school, and that therefore women are almost biologically predisposed to do this job.” ChildrenIdeasHomeSchoolJobsMotherTeacherCenturyEducatorNineteenth Century Author:Dana Goldstein
“If you look at the early nineteenth century you see the idea that we educate children to be voters and to be participants in our popular democracy. And then at the turn of the century when more and more immigrants are coming into the schools, Americanization becomes a more explicit part of the agenda.” IfsLooksChildrenIdeasSchoolTurnsDemocracyCenturyImmigrantsAgendasVotersEducateNineteenth CenturyParticipantsExplicit Author:Dana Goldstein