We Must Treat Children as Children
Posted by Samantha on December 24, 2010 in Thought for the day |
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
Thomas Stephen Szasz, Hungarian psychiatrist and academic (b. 1920)