“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?” FirstsBelieveChildrenNextAnswersHappenedFunctionNarrativeHistorianMatured Author:A. J. P. Taylor
“English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave.” FirstsChildrenHas BeensLostLessonsAdultsSlaveInnocenceExploitation Author:Germaine Greer
“Alarmed successively by every fashionable medical terror of the day, she dosed her children with every specific which was publicly advertised or privately recommended...The consequence was, that the dangers, which had at first been imaginary, became real: these little victims of domestic medicine never had a day's health: they looked, and were, more dead than alive.” FirstsChildrenLittlesRealAliveDangerConsequenceVictimMedicineTerrorMedicalImaginaryFashionable Author:Maria Edgeworth
“There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy. Millions and millions of children would today stand in no need of sex education or consumer education or anti-racism education or any of those fake educations, if they had had in the first place 'an' education.” IfsNeedsFirstsChildrenTodaySexEducationMillionsIgnoranceRacismConsumersFakeRemedyLiteracyAnti RacismSex EducationThoughtlessness Author:Richard Mitchell