R. H. Tawney: Quotes about children

R. H. Tawney was English philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on children.
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“Apart from the children of the well-to-do”

R. H. Tawney

Secondary Education For All (1922)
Context: Apart from the children of the well-to-do, who receive secondary education almost as a matter of course, and whose parents appear usually, though quite mistakenly, to believe that they pay the whole cost of it, secondary education is still commonly regarded as a "privilege" to be conceded only to the exceptionally brilliant or fortunate.

Children

“Transference from the primary school to higher education should depend solely upon whether it is likely to be for the benefit of the children concerned.”

R. H. Tawney

Secondary Education For All (1922)

Children , Education , School , Dependency

“In place… of "elementary" education for nine-tenths of the children and "secondary" education for the exceptionally fortunate or the exceptionally able, we need to envisage education as two stages in a single course which will embrace the whole development of childhood and adolescence up to sixteen, and obliterate the vulgar irrelevances of class inequality and economic pressure in a new educational synthesis.”

R. H. Tawney

Secondary Education For All (1922)

Children , Education , Childhood

“Labour can claim with some confidence that it is both voicing the demands of nearly all enlightened educationalists and working for the only organization of education which will enable the community to make the best use of the most precious of its natural resources — the endowments of its children.”

R. H. Tawney

Secondary Education For All (1922)

Children , Education , Confidence , Communication

“In England it is not ungentlemanly to steal halfpennies from children, and industrial interests, it may be assumed, will oppose any reform which interferes with the supply of cheap juvenile labour.”

R. H. Tawney

Secondary Education For All (1922)

Children