THE GROWTH OF SOCIAL IDEALS Change from childish to adult friendsâInfluence of favorite teachersâWhat children wish or plan to do or beâProperty and the money senseâSocial judgmentsâThe only childâFirst social organizationsâStudent lifeâAssociations for youth, controlled by adults. In a few aspects we are already able to trace the normal psychic outgrowing of the home of […]
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Knightly ideals and honorâThirty adolescents from ShakespeareâGoetheâC.D. WarnerâAldrichâThe fugitive nature of adolescent experienceâExtravagance of autobiographiesâStories that attach to great namesâSome typical crazesâIllustrations from George Eliot, Edison, Chatterton, Hawthorne, Whittier, Spencer, Huxley, Lyell, Byron, Heine, Napoleon, Darwin, Martineau, Agassiz, Madame Roland, Louisa Alcott, F.H. Burnett, Helen Keller, Marie Bashkirtseff, Mary MacLane, Ada Negri, De Quincey, Stuart
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Classifications of children’s faultsâPeculiar childrenâReal faults as distinguished from interference with the teacher’s easeâTruancy, its nature and effectsâThe genesis of crimeâThe lie, its classes and relations to imaginationâPredatory activitiesâGangsâCauses of crimeâThe effects of stories of crimeâTemibilityâJuvenile crime and its treatment. Siegert[1] groups children of problematical nature into the following sixteen classes: the sad, the extremely
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The story of Jahn and the TurnersâThe enthusiasm which this movement generated in GermanyâThe ideal of bringing out latent powersâThe concept of more perfect voluntary controlâSwedish gymnasticsâDoing everything possible for the body as a machineâLiberal physical cultureâLing’s orthogenic scheme of economic postures and movements and correcting defectsâThe ideal of symmetry and prescribing exercises to bring
There is no better warning about the growing confusion that seems to be gradually beclouding the federal governmentâs response to the coronavirus challenge than the belief it betrayed last week that, perhaps, all it needs to calm the fears and apprehensions of Nigerians about its ability to halt the spread of the virus is to
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LONDON: It was early spring when British scientists laid out the bald truth to their government. It was âhighly likely,â they said, that there was now âsustained transmissionâ of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. If unconstrained and if the virus behaved as in China, up to four-fifths of Britons could be infected and one in
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 The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating impact across the world. Efforts to contain the coronavirus are vital to the health of the worldâs population, but they are also exposing children to increased risk of violence â including maltreatment, gender-based violence and sexual exploitation. As leaders of organisations committed to ending violence against children,
History of the movementâIts philosophyâThe value of hand training in the development of the brain and its significance in the making of manâA grammar of our many industries hardâThe best we do can reach but fewâVery great defects in our manual training methods which do not base on science and make nothing salableâThe Leipzig systemâSloyd
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Nothing could be plainer than the effect that the increasing economic security of women is having upon their whole habit of life and mind. The diminishing marriage rate and the even more rapidly diminishing birth rates show which way the wind is blowing. It is common for male statisticians, with characteristic imbecility, to ascribe the fall in the marriage rate to a growing disinclination on the male side. This growing disinclination is actually on the female side. Even though no considerable body of women has yet reached the definite doctrine that marriage is less desirable than freedom, it must be plain that large numbers of them now approach the business with far greater fastidiousness than their grandmothers or even their mothers exhibited. They are harder to please, and hence pleased less often. The woman of a century ago could imagine nothing more favourable to her than marriag
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That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters. One finds very few professors of the subject, even among admitted feminists, approaching the fact as obvious;
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