MODERN CHILD
LONG-TERM POLICY WANTED, The problem of the modern child was discussed by Viscountess Astor, M.P., in a ‘ recent address to teachers. "When I was speaking to a so-called modern child the other day,” she said, “I got the impression that he had made the world before he came into it and had just come back to see how it was going along. The child is really a problem nowadays. The average eight-year-old today knows more than its mother knew, and certainly is seeing more than its mother has ever seen." Lady Astor said that teachers today had not half the chance they had fifty years ago. They had so many rivals—cinemas, newspapers, wireless, the telephone and motors. “Children are born into a sort of circus civilisation," she continued. “They are apt to see nothing through having too much to look at. I think it is time we had a long-term policy for children. So far we have got long-term policies for pigs, potatoes, wheat and everything except children.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1939, Page 11
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170MODERN CHILD Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 April 1939, Page 11
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