Monday, October 17, 2011

Chapter 3 - Heywood

Overview
    - there are not going to be a huge number of people that think that children are either perfect or evil, people usually think that they are somewhere in the middle. This is the case in most historical periods

Some Themes
    - Depravity/Innocence
           - Children were looked at as angels
    - Nature/ Nurture
           - Heredity or environment
     - Age/Sex
           - Childhood is an age but is different between boys and girls
                  - Boys were first children differentiated by sex
           - Androgyny
                  - This is a person that exhibits traits of both sexes
     - Independence/Dependence
           - Help out enough so they can continue on their own

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