"Childhood is now percieved as a time of preparation for the workforce rather than as a time of freedom and exploration"
2007-01-06 01:04:59 · 21 answers · asked by Smoochy Poochy 6 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
ha ha ha your all so bloody funny, I am serious I need to find out where this quote comes from.
2007-01-06 01:09:40 · update #1
I don't know but my dad always said children should be taken away at birth and returned when they are 18. This is because they can go to work, earn a wage and take him to the pub.
As a mother I must agree with whomever said that. Children are not alowed to be children for very long now. They all seem to be in such a rush to grow up and leave home, whether this is because home life is not as nice as it was years ago due to the extra pressures put on families to earn more money, own better cars and bigger houses. I don't know but it is quiet sad.
2007-01-06 01:09:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Couldn't find out who said that but he sounds like something that either Charles Dickens or Charles Kingsley would have said. And it is still relevant today. Give kids back their childhood!
2007-01-06 09:24:07 · answer #2 · answered by Saudi Geoff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/natpoetday/schedule.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/natpoetday/jackie_kay.shtml
Jackie Kay reads her poem Childhood, Still
The poem reflects on the threats to childhood, and the importance of childhood as a time of freedom and exploration.
If you listen to BBC4 maybe this is were it was presented?
Rudolph Steiner? well he could have but no source?
2007-01-06 10:14:58 · answer #3 · answered by cruisingyeti 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I searched the quotations pages for you in vain. It is a rather sad saying, but, in this day and age, rather true, I'm afraid.
2007-01-07 10:13:21 · answer #4 · answered by Amanda G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spent almost 1 hr searching but with no joy sorry..
contrary to earlier answers i think it may have been part of an election speech maybe from one of the shadow cabinet to berate the ruling party (maybe education sec).
2007-01-06 10:31:31 · answer #5 · answered by blueknowz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rudolph Steiner said it critically of the way state education was going.
2007-01-06 09:18:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It sounds very similiar to something Karl Marx would say, so my guess is him. But I'm not 100% sure and I cant find anything to back it up, but it does sound very familiar.
2007-01-07 18:41:29 · answer #7 · answered by Arwen M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was a Tory MP, probably David Cameron.
2007-01-06 10:32:44 · answer #8 · answered by Beau Brummell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like Hitler or Churchill.
2007-01-06 09:07:43 · answer #9 · answered by Spiny Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A bloodless cur?
2007-01-09 11:16:12 · answer #10 · answered by Connie Lindquist's!® 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋