A Treatise on Parents and Children

A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a book that explores the relationship between parents and their children. The author argues that parents should be more understanding of their children's needs and desires, rather than trying to force them into a certain mold. He also discusses the importance of education in shaping young minds and how it can help children develop into well-rounded individuals.

By George Bernard Shaw · First published 1910 · Genre: Non-fiction, Philosophy, Social Commentary · 60 chapters

Contents

• Trailing Clouds of Glory
• The Child is Father to the Man
• What is a Child?
• The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
• The Manufacture of Monsters
• Small and Large Families
• Children as Nuisances
• Child Fanciers
• Childhood as a State of Sin
• School
• My Scholastic Acquirements
• Schoolmasters of Genius
• What we do not Teach, and Why
• Taboo in Schools
• Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools
• What is to be Done?
• Children's Rights and Duties
• Should Children Earn their Living?
• Children's Happiness
• The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday
• University Schoolboyishness
• The New Laziness
• The Infinite School Task
• The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
• English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
• The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
• The Common Sense of Toleration
• The Sin of Athanasius
• The Experiment Experimenting
• Why we Loathe Learning and Love Sport
• Antichrist
• Under the Whip
• Technical Instruction
• Docility and Dependence
• The Abuse of Docility
• The Schoolboy and the Homeboy
• The Comings of Age of Children
• The Conflict of Wills
• The Demagogue's Opportunity
• Our Quarrelsomeness
• We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves
• The Pursuit of Manners
• Not too Much Wind on the Heath, Brother
• Wanted: a Child's Magna Charta
• The Pursuit of Learning
• Children and Game: a Proposal
• The Parents' Intolerable Burden
• Mobilization
• Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs
• How Little we Know about our Parents
• Our Abandoned Mothers
• Family Affection
• The Fate of the Family
• Family Mourning
• Art Teaching
• The Impossibility of Secular Education
• Natural Selection as a Religion
• Moral Instruction Leagues
• The Bible
• Artist Idolatry

More by George Bernard Shaw

• Saint Joan (1924)
• Androcles and the Lion (1912)
• Cymbeline Refinished: a Variation on Shakespeare's Ending (1936)
• Arms and the Man (1894)
• Candida (1913)
• The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)
• Caesar and Cleopatra (1909)
• The Six of Calais (1934)
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