The Disappearance of Childhood by Neil Postman

The Disappearance of Childhood



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ISBN: 9780307797223
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Format: pdf
Page: 192


Children are one third of our population and all of our future. Going even further back, Postman (1982), in his book on the disappearance of childhood, attributes to the ancient Romans the idea that young people should not be exposed to adult, and especially sexual, behavior. ~Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982. Jamie Martin, editor of Simple Homeschool, also blogs about motherhood at Steady Mom I want my kids to have a childhood. From the author's title and reading the prologue I had a very good either about what the book was about. Therefore, with this intention in the back of my mind I picked up Neil Postman's “Disappearance of Childhood”. ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981. Can't Tell Right from Wrong), Neil Postman (The End of Education, Amusing Ourselves to Death, The Disappearance of Childhood), Diane Ravitch, Thomas Sowell (Conflict of Visions), and Jacques Barzun (Begin Here). This is insanity, of course, as we can see when we observe the result. I often hear people say that children should be treated like adults. That is, the disappearance of childhood? A living, breathing, mud-between-toes, romping-in-woods, staring-at-the-sky childhood. -Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood Ka-blam! Childhood is being bulldozed by what I've called in one of my books (The Best Schools) “the academic achievement discourse.” Is there any stopping it?





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