Treatise on Parents and Children
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1. A TREATISE ON PARENTS AND CHILDREN2. PARENTS AND CHILDREN3. The Child is Father to the Man4. What is a Child?5. The Sin of Nadab and Abihu6. The Manufacture of Monsters7. Small and Large Families8. Children as Nuisances9. Child Fanciers10. Childhood as a State of Sin11. School12. My Scholastic Acquirements13. Schoolmasters of Genius14. What We Do Not Teach, and Why15. Taboo in Schools16. Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools17. What is to be Done?18. Children's Rights and Duties19. Should Children Earn their Living?20. Children's Happiness21. The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday22. University Schoolboyishness23. The New Laziness24. The Infinite School Task25. The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge26. English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice27. The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness28. The Common Sense of Toleration29. The Sin of Athanasius30. The Experiment Experimenting31. Why We Loathe Learning and Love Sport32. Antichrist33. Under the Whip34. Technical Instruction35. Docility and Dependence36. The Abuse of Docility37. The Schoolboy and the Homeboy38. The Comings of Age of Children39. The Conflict of Wills40. The Demagogue's Opportunity41. Our Quarrelsomeness42. We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves43. The Pursuit of Manners44. Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother45. Wanted: a Child's Magna Charta46. The Pursuit of Learning47. Children and Game: a Proposal48. The Parents' Intolerable Burden49. Mobilization50. Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs51. How Little We Know About Our Parents52. Our Abandoned Mothers53. Family Affection54. The Fate of the Family55. Family Mourning56. Art Teaching57. The Impossibility of Secular Education58. Natural Selection as a Religion59. Moral Instruction Leagues60. The Bible61. Artist Idolatry62. "The Machine"63. The Provocation to Anarchism64. Imagination65. Government by Bullies