CHILDREN FOLLOW ADULTS
Josiah Warren in Equitable Commerce in 1855: “Children are principally the creatures of example. Whatever surrounding adults do, they will do. If we strike them, they will strike each other. If they see us attempting to govern each other, they will imitate the same barbarism. If we habitually admit the rights of sovereignty in each other and in them, they will become equally respectful of our rights and of each other’s. All these propositions are probably self-evident, yet not one of them is practicable under the present mixture of the interests and responsibilities between adults and between parents and children. To solve the problem of education, children must be surrounded with equity and must be equitably treated, and each and every one, parent or child, must be understood to be an individual and must have his or her individual rights equitably respected.”
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