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- Title
DISCUSSION.
- Authors
Finlay-Johnson, Harriet
- Abstract
The article comments on Arthur St. John's essay on the roles of community and its children. The article also discusses the kind of discipline to be used in childhood. Captain Arthur St. John's paper summarizes and explains very thoroughly, and almost exhaustively, the various agencies around which experiments controversies, and finally success will range. The human civilization, and especially the educational system which is a part of it, would deny to the children of the community that joy of life which nature lavishes on the birds, the trees, and the flowers. As Captain St. John so truly remarks, one of the strongest childish instincts is that of play. Their pleasure and their joy take the outward form of expression in play. Yet play is, or has been, the one thing contraband in school. This may not have harmed children very much in some classes of society, because they have had ample time and means for making up the deficiency out of school hours. A certain kind of discipline, peculiar to school, has been imposed on children during school age, to be withdrawn when school days were over. And then such an imposed discipline would automatically dissolves after school life. How can we expect such a sudden change will not affect the lives of the school children? If we have to make them a responsible citizen they should be told the importance of freedom and how to use that freedom from the very beginning.
- Subjects
CHILD development; DISCIPLINE of children; SELF-control; DISCIPLINE; SCHOOL discipline; COMMUNITIES
- Publication
Sociological Review (1908-1952), 1912, Vol a5, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article