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Ancient Greece Part II: Teens are Teens

March 16th, 2009 at 06:55am Under Teens/Tweens

Daniel Rosenkrantz, Coaches Parents of Tweens/Teens “The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, [...]

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Ancient Greece Part I: Ideals of Education

March 8th, 2009 at 02:26pm Under Family+ Teens/Tweens

by Daniel Rosenkrantz, Teen Mentor/Coach In Ancient Greece children were not educated in order to get a job, but rather to be good citizens of Greece. Nowadays the opposite is true. Hardly any talk of what makes a good citizen goes on in our schools. We pump our children through the system not in hope [...]

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