Who Invented Adolescence? Article by Mardi Keyes

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Chapter XXI - A Scheme of Educational Theory Proposed to Parents

Each Class in Society should have its Ideal - Poor Children need a Vocabulary - Children of Educated Parents do not - This, true of Imagination - The Development of Faculties Important for Ignorant and Deficient Children - But not for Children of Educated Parents - The Educator should form Habits - Should Nourish with Ideas - Our Main Objects - We recognise Material and Spiritual Principles of Human Nature - We recognise the Supreme Educator - Studies are Valued as they present Fruitful Ideas - Nature-Knowledge - Object-Lessons - We trust much to Good Books - We do not recognise 'Child-Nature.' - We are Tenacious of Individuality: we consider Proportion - We think that Children have a Right to Knowledge

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Chapter XX - Show Cause Why

We have been asking, Why?––Tom goes to School to get a good place in Class––Tom passes his 'Exams.'––So do the Girls––The Tendency of Grind––No Choice as to the Matter or Manner of Studies––Tyranny of Competitive Examination Supported by Parents––The Evil Lies in the Competition––Examination Necessary––but should Include the whole School––The Primary Desires––Neither Virtuous nor Vicious––They Stimulate to Effort––Curiosity as Active as Emulation––Extent of a Child's Knowledge––Why the Schoolboy is no longer Curious––Every Boy Wants to Excel––Emulation an Easier Spring to Work than Curiosity––But the Boy no longer Wants to Know––An Examination-ridden Empire

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Children's Lies by G. Stanley Hall, published in The American Journal of Psychology

Chapter XIX - What is Truth?

We are as a Nation Losing and Gaining in Truthfulness - The Child a Human Being, perhaps at his Best - In the Matter of Lying: Two Theories - A Child is Born without Virtue or Vice - Lying is not Elemental, but Secondary and Symptomatic - 1. Pseudophobia––Treatment - 2. The Lie Heroic - 3. Truth for Friends, Lies for Enemies - 4. Lies inspired by Selfishness - 5. Deceptions of Imagination and Play––Due to an Unfed Imagination––Lessons in Truth Telling - 6. Pseudomania - Signs of Pseudomania - Children must be Trained to Truthfulness

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Chapter XVIII - Sensations and Feelings

Reflected sensations - Open-air Memories should be Stored - Memories of Delight a Source of Physical Well-Being and of Mental Restoration - Sensations and Feelings Distinguished - The Feelings should be Objective, not Subjective - What the Feelings are and are not - Every Feeling has its Positive and its Negative - The Feelings not Moral or Immoral - Connection between Unremembered Feelings adn Acts - These Trifling Acts the Best Portion of a Good Man's Life - The Perception of Character one of our Fine3st Feelings - The Orator Plays upon Feelings - Enthusiasm - In Educating the Feelings we Modify the Character - The Sixth Sense of Tact - Beware of Words - A Feeling is Communicated by Sympathy - Persons are Differentiated by their Powers of Appreciation or Depreciation - Some Danger in Persiflage - To Deal with the Feelings of the Young a Delicate Task

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