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Abolishing Adolescence |
| Published: September 3, 2007, 5:00 am |
| Tags: labour shortage, conservatives, family values, alberta, social conservatives, byfield, child labour |
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Says the daddy of Alberta neo-cons; Ted Byfield. One of those old-style teachers, who died in the early '50s, was Sir Richard Livingstone, a classics prof and educational philosopher. Livingstone defined what he called "educable ages" of human beings. We are most educable, he said, when we're very young, least educable in the teen years and early 20s, and become highly educable again as adults. In effect, he was abolishing the whole concept of the teen-ager, the adolescent.If nearly everybody at 12 or 13 joined the work force, they would in fact become part of the adult world. Wait a minute weren't he and his neo-con pals the same ones that want to raise the age of sexual consent to 16. Decrying any sexual relations between teen agers and adults as child abuse and equating it with child porn. Yep they were.And they are of course the same ones who want the age lowered, perhaps to 10, to be able to try teen-agers and children as Adults for crimes like murder. [ Full article ] |
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