Excerpt from The Understanding of Adult Ways Adults occupy the places of leadership in almost every sphere of life. They determine policies and decide courses of action. Although much is said in these days about the independence of modern youth, it is only here and there that young people exercise actual control over important processes. Adults manage our industries and our banks. They make our laws and our political platforms. They preserve our customs, good and bad, and set the fashions for our dress and our thought. ...
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Excerpt from The Understanding of Adult Ways Adults occupy the places of leadership in almost every sphere of life. They determine policies and decide courses of action. Although much is said in these days about the independence of modern youth, it is only here and there that young people exercise actual control over important processes. Adults manage our industries and our banks. They make our laws and our political platforms. They preserve our customs, good and bad, and set the fashions for our dress and our thought. They build our cities and our battleships, bring about our economic depressions, and pursue policies that plunge nations into the turmoil and horror of war. It is in this adult-controlled world that chil dren and young people live. However Sheltered they may be for a time in home or school, it is in the arena of our social, political, and economic life that many of the great issues of their characters are determined. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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