The Boy Problem: A Study in Social Pedagogy (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Boy Problem: A Study in Social Pedagogy

IN the first edition of this book the author said: There is a time when a boy emerges from the narrow bounds of a dependent self-life, and from the limits of the school and the home, and seeks the larger social world of the street and the gang.' The instinct is legitimate and masterful and full of possibilities of danger or help. Its recognition is recent, and literature upon it is slight.

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Excerpt from The Boy Problem: A Study in Social Pedagogy

The author, who is both a clergyman and a Doctor of Philosophy, has been among boys and done work with them that I consider hardly less than epoch-making in significance. Dr. Forbush understands the natural boy and how to approach and handle him, and has also put himself abreast of the new psycho-genetic and pedagogical literature.

The great fact of adolescence with all its multifarious phenomena and its stages of transformation might almost be called nature's regeneration. For a few years before this, boys live with their mates and adjust themselves as best they may to the will and way of the adult Olympians about them in the persons of teachers and parents, whose lives and ideals seem strange and alien to them. But when the ephebic reconstruction begins, one of its most radical changes consists in opening the soul to influences that come to it from riper years. Instead of a horizontal expansion of interests in boy life, the soul now reaches upward and is intensely sensitive to what the coming years are to bring; so that this age is the golden period of adult influence, provided it is wise enough not to offend.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.