A Treatise on Parents and Children
1910
Shaw's 1910 treatise on childhood, schooling, and the family, published as the preface to his play Misalliance: sixty-four short essays against rote education and parental tyranny, from The Child Is Father to the Man to Government by Bullies.
- Parents and Children
- 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
- Government by Bullies