Treatise on Parents and Children By George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw's classic collection of essays and musings on parenthood, childhood, and the connections within humanity. Topics explored include: 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, "The Machine," The Provocation to Anarchism, Imagination, and Government by Bullies. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.