The Hurried Child Quotes

“The transition is well explained by futurologist Alvin Toffler: “As work shifted out of the fields and the home, children had to be prepared for factory life. If young people could be prefitted in the industrial system, it would vastly ease the problems of industrial discipline later on. The result was another central structure of all [modern] societies: mass education.”2”
― David Elkind, The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon

“The conception of child competence is much too functional for it to be given up just because the research, clinical experience, and expert opinion concur that it is both incorrect and unhealthy.”
― David Elkind, The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon