Treatise on Parents and Children (eBook, PDF) - Shaw, Bernard
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George Bernard Shaw's classic collection of essays and musings on parenthood, childhood, and the connections within humanity. In a characteristically polemic essay, Shaw excoriated schools as prisons and family homes as theaters of abuse and neglect. He argued that children who are governed for the convenience of adults—through the use or threat of violence, uninspired and dogmatic instruction, and confinement to the school room—will become adults who are unfit for the duties of citizenship in a democratic society, unable to tolerate difference or engage in dialogue with others. Shaw raised a…mehr

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George Bernard Shaw's classic collection of essays and musings on parenthood, childhood, and the connections within humanity. In a characteristically polemic essay, Shaw excoriated schools as prisons and family homes as theaters of abuse and neglect. He argued that children who are governed for the convenience of adults—through the use or threat of violence, uninspired and dogmatic instruction, and confinement to the school room—will become adults who are unfit for the duties of citizenship in a democratic society, unable to tolerate difference or engage in dialogue with others. Shaw raised a series of concerns with regard to what we would now call children’s agency, particularly their rights to their own physical person, to explore and choose their own beliefs, and to develop their own appreciation for the cultural forms that most interest them. While he criticized the disparity between the rights of children and adults he recognized that children do not have the same capacity to provide for or protect themselves, calling for a middle path for the reasonable protection of children’s safety while encouraging the development of their own agency and socialization. One hundred years later, George Bernard Shaw’s Treaties on parents and children (1914) may still challenge quite a few minds and ‚values’. So get ready for a mental earthquake, if a combination of dramatic, comic and socially corrective attitudes are not an usual spot for you, as a reader.
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From 26 July 1856 to 2 November 1950, Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist George Bernard Shaw was alive. He preferred to be referred to simply as Bernard Shaw. From the 1880s until his death and even after, he had a significant impact on Western politics, theater, and society. He produced more than sixty plays, including classics like Saint Joan (1913), Pygmalion (1913), and Man and Superman (1902). (1923). Shaw became a well-known playwright during his time and was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1925 for his works that combine historical allegory and contemporary satire. Before Shaw's first play, Arms and the Man, published in 1894, became a success in the public eye, years passed. He tried to infuse new realism into English-language drama, influenced by Henrik Ibsen. He had established himself as a reputable theater and music critic by the mid-1880s. After having a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and swiftly advanced to the position of principal pamphleteer. Before Shaw's first play, Arms and the Man, published in 1894, became a success in the public eye, years passed. He tried to infuse new realism into English-language drama, influenced by Henrik Ibsen.