The Importance Of Childhood And Education

In the deeper sense, the story reveals the truth of capitalist societies where the power strictly belongs to the wealthy ones. In this respect, the city illustrates the comparison of the wealthy and powerful people, and poor people who are forced to subdue to the most privileged. In the broader perspective, the story constitutes the differences in the level of life between countries of First and Third World. Modern economic systems are established in the way that the wealthy enjoy most of the benefits. In this way, the child becomes a puppet who is manipulated and controlled by the

Conflict view sociologists believe that the inequalities between children and adults are greater than ever, and that children today experience greater control, oppression and dependency, not greater care and protection. This view suggests that children’s wellbeing, personal freedom and resources are all controlled more so than they were before the supposed ‘March of progress’ and there is a vast amount of inequality between children still. For example, class inequalities are very present, as children of unskilled manual workers are over three times more likely to experience conduct disorders than the children of professionals (Caroline Woodroffe 1993). In addition to this, children born into poor families are also more likely to die in infancy or childhood (Marilyn Howard 2001).

During early modern Europe, children were viewed in many different ways which changed how parents chose to raise their children. During the 1500’s, the mortality rates for children were high, therefore children were viewed as if they were adults and very precious if they survived, many people believed that they needed to treat children harshly to make them strong. In the 1600’s, children were raised tenderly as they were rational beings that could use reason. Children were viewed in many ways during early modern Europe to be rational, precious, and in need of guidance where these views determined the parents’ choice in child rearing to behaving harshly to kind guidance.

When a child is born, they can be born into circumstances in which they cannot control. They can be born into wealth, or into poverty. Some may be born into privileged home, others into a restricted or a “broken” home. People come from many different homes with many different stories, but they don’t let their origins define the rest of their life. One’s course of their life isn't determined by their background.

Jean Jacques Rousseau in On Education writes about how to properly raise and educate a child. Rousseau's opinion is based on his own upbringing and lack of formal education at a young age. Rousseau depicts humanity as naturally good and becomes evil because humans tamper with nature, their greatest deficiency, but also possess the ability to transform into self-reliant individuals. Because of the context of the time, it can be seen that Rousseau was influenced by the idea of self-preservation, individual freedom, and the Enlightenment, which concerned the operation of reason, and the idea of human progress. Rousseau was unaware of psychology and the study of human development. This paper will argue that Rousseau theorizes that humanity is

John Locke was the forefather of the Educational Constructivist movement, which theorized that children and learners construct their personal knowledge in both social and individual situations. Though his opinions were often disputed, Locke had many opinions and theories of the habits and social conventions for the education of young children. Specifically, and perhaps most importantly, he believed that “It is more accurate to think of the child’s mind as a blank slate, and whatever comes from the mind is from the environment” (Crain 7). This ‘blank slate’, or tabula rasa idea founded the theory of nurture. According to his theory, as babies we are born without knowledge of what we should fear or how we should act, it is up to our environments to teach us how to act and behave.

Jean Jacques Rousseau’s ideas were based around the ‘free child’ idea. What this meant was that a child was free to move, think, question, explore, inquire and have the freedom to self-regulate. The child was allowed

In the past decade, the spotlight has been cast on the importance of children attending preschool. This topic has taken part in both political and social debates, where it is questioned if preschool really does benefit a child’s thought processes and ability to grasp on to intellectual concepts at a quicker rate. As a strong supporter of early childhood education, I have taken it upon myself to enforce this idea into the brains of millennials that are prone to believe that early childhood education is an unnecessary and an expensive luxury. Despite the sudden rise in people that belittle the importance of early childhood education in our society, I have committed my life to supporting and educating children being that they are our most valuable resource. Choosing to become both an early childhood educator and advocating that preschool become a requirement for all American children has allowed me to combine my love for children and education into a profession that will both benefit society and allow me to lead a life I am content with.

The Developing Child tells the viewers a brief history of the Nature vs. Nurture debate. Jean-Jacques Rousseau stressed the nature side of our personalities, believing it is nature alone that makes us how we are. English physiologist, John Locke believed children start off as blank slates and that they are completely shaped by their environment and thus held to the nurture side of the debate. This video has much newer ideas and experiments than those of Rousseau’s and Locke’s and because of that their thesis is “while biological factors provide the capabilities, environmental factors see if they are reached”. Babies know and think much more than was previously thought. Babies can turn their eyes and heads immediately recognize mother’s voice,

In this modern world, some kids lives with the system that abuse or damage their innocence. Since children are a part of the society, often time kids treated unlawful. When children treated unlawful by the society, then they will experience so many negative things in their life. For Instance, in Tony Morrison’s book “The bluest eye” she explains that “Pecola’s father raped his daughter and she became pregnant” (Morrison, 6). Her innocence doesn’t help her to analyze what happen to her and because of that her life experience turned upside down.

In my opinion I would believe that Locke and Rousseau are both correct. They both believe in the upbringing of children but the only difference is how parents teach their children. There is no one specific way to raise a child. You do what you feel is natural and what you believe will best the best for the future of the children. The only thing that is really important is that parents teach their children on how to be successful in their own way. Not everyone has the same recipe of success and it shows that there truly isn’t one way to raise a child. A parent can only do so much before it is time to trust that the child has learned enough to figure out their own recipe for success.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas about children and education were both admired and criticised widely. He was “regarded as a foundational thinker on education” (May, 2013, p.32). Ideas of his that were praised and inspired other people’s work included encouraging infants to be unrestricted and roam free in the environment. During the time of Rousseau’s work, children were swaddled to prevent bones and muscles from becoming deformed. Rousseau believed that it would be beneficial for children to have some freedom and interact with the surroundings of the environment. This is thought to be extremely beneficial for their learning and development. Rousseau also had a view that male education should be superior to female education. He believed that females should be educated to become good mothers and wives. Females should be supported by their husbands. These skills would be taught to them by their

The upbringing of a child might just be the most important task there is. The way a child is raised, treated and the situation at home during its childhood take a huge impact on the rest of a child’s life. It effects one not only one’s emotional stability, but also physical and mental health can be affected by one’s childhood. Sometimes the lack of love and support, harassment or other more severer forms of abuse can be found just next door without anyone knowing. It is not always that obvious when a child is suffering, and it doesn’t always have to be abuse or the lack of love that take a negative effect on a child. Overprotectiveness for instance can also cause ‘damage’.

Jean Jacques Rousseau also says that how a parent brought up his child contributes to how they would function in society. Basically saying that a parent’s role is significant for a child to have a childhood. Rousseau emphasises the changing role of a parent during the Enlightenment period and how valuable a child’s childhood is for nurturing and molding a child. Despite Rousseau’s radical view on parenting he also highlights that a parent’s role is to love the child and learn from them. The Industrial period was a different matter altogether as people did not see a problem with child labor and the idea of childhood being lost. The social conduct of childhood was overridden, society had an idea of everyone supporting the family, which meant everyone in the house hold worked to ensure the family lives above the poverty line. As some of the young girls worked as domestic servants they were susceptible to sexual assault removing the innocence a child once had. During the Industrial time period parents weren’t always around to nurture and teach the child which contributes their lack of understanding. All in all, both eras differ in this aspect of

The child has not been perceived like an individual until the work of eighteen century philosophers Locke and Rousseau, who expressed their thoughts on paper about the child's ability to