Education: Parents

Many people are parents. Many parents are stupid. They do not know their children any better than they know the milkman. They are responsible for children being called such insulting names as kiddies, brats, little lambs, little nuisances. They either display their children to visitors like new phonograph records or put them in corners like broken bridge tables. The old practice of cuffing children has given way to almost complete indifference. Parents who can afford a nursemaid seldom see their small children more than once or twice a day. Then, when a child gets older he is sent away to school....

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