Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Oh, To Play Like a Child Again - June 22, 2006 - The New York Sun
Oh, To Play Like a Child Again - June 22, 2006 - The New York Sun: "And why should they? The elasticity of modern American adolescence has occasioned more than its share of handwringing, but Mr. Noxon argues that it may not be such a bad thing after all. He suggests that adulthood as we think of it today is less a biological imperative than a byproduct of the Industrial Revolution, child labor laws, and the ironically named 'play movement' of the 19th century, all of which - along with the need for an increasingly literate, specialized work force - necessitated the creation of a strictly bounded social holding pattern called childhood. 'This shouldn't suggest that people in olden times didn't distinguish between kids and grownups,' he writes."
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
