Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workplace itself, as evidenced by the widespread use of child labor. But actual education in the workplace is ultimately more expensive and less efficient than collectively organized socialization in public schools. Schools, then, developed primarily as mechanisms by which economically desirable patterns of behavior could be imbued in children before they enter into productive activity. The school is a model of the workplace...
...time? Why was cheating on exams so fanatically discouraged even though a student writing an examination is no longer in a position to increase his store of knowledge on the subject at hand? Why was such a premium placed on competitiveness, and why were the most creative, most imaginative children always the most heavily penalized? As for the assertion that most of what is learned in school is necessary for later life, how then are we to explain the obvious fact that people generally forget most of what they learn in school after they leave? If the subject matter taught...
Ross cited parental loss or separation or a household move as the determining factor in 76 per cent of the suicides threatened or attempted by children and adolescents, noting that problems which an adult would regard as minor might seem insurmountable to adolescents...
...contrast, Paul Hammer, Nailles' fated counterpart, is literally a bastard. "There is some mysterious, genetic principality," Cheever observes, "where the children of anarchy and change are raised." Hammer carries the passport of that principality. Brought up as a foundling, he becomes an unsettling, sinister figure. Rootless and rich, he is odd in some dreadful way that puts him outside humanity. A haunted, solitary drunk, he seems to epitomize the danger and disorder that lurk in self-preoccupation. A pet cat, or familiar spirit, called Schwartz, suggests that Hammer may be some sort of warlock. But in any case, Hammer...
...Children from happy families will be sent to live in a home...