< 영어로 읽는 고전 _ 버나드 쇼의 부모와 자녀에 관한 논문>
"Treatise on Parents and Children"은 조지 버나드 쇼가 1910년에 발표한 에세이입니다.
이 에세이는 쇼의 희곡 "Misalliance"의 서문으로 쓰였지만, 그 자체로 독립적인 작품으로 평가받고 있습니다. 쇼는 이 글에서 부모와 자녀 관계, 교육, 사회화 과정 등에 대한 자신의 견해를 상세히 밝힙니다.

주요 내용으로는 다음과 같은 주제들이 포함됩니다:

1. 부모와 자녀 간의 권력 관계 비판
2. 전통적인 교육 시스템에 대한 문제 제기
3. 아동의 권리와 자유에 대한 주장
4. 사회가 아동을 대하는 방식에 대한 비판
5. 가정 교육과 공교육의 역할에 대한 고찰

쇼는 이 에세이에서 아동을 독립적인 개체로 존중해야 한다고 주장하며, 부모의 과도한 통제와 간섭을 비판합니다. 또한 당시의 교육 시스템이 아동의 창의성과 개성을 억압한다고 지적합니다.
특히 쇼는 아동의 자유와 권리를 강조하며, 사회가 아동을 단순히 미성숙한 존재로 취급하는 것을 비판합니다. 그는 아동이 자신의 경험을 통해 배우고 성장할 수 있는 환경을 제공해야 한다고 주장합니다.
"Treatise on Parents and Children"은 쇼의 진보적이고 혁신적인 사상을 잘 보여주는 작품으로 평가받고 있습니다. 그의 아이디어 중 일부는 당시로서는 매우 급진적이었지만, 오늘날의 교육 및 아동 발달 이론과 맥락을 같이하는 부분이 많습니다.
이 에세이는 교육학, 아동 심리학, 사회학 등 다양한 분야에서 여전히 연구되고 인용되고 있으며, 부모-자녀 관계와 교육에 대한 현대적 논의에도 많은 영향을 미치고 있습니다.
전체적으로 "Treatise on Parents and Children"은 쇼의 사회 비평가로서의 면모와 그의 진보적 사상을 잘 보여주는 중요한 텍스트로 평가받고 있습니다.

< Classics in English _ Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw >
"Treatise on Parents and Children" is an essay published by George Bernard Shaw in 1910.
This essay was written as the introduction to Shaw's play "Misalliance," but it is considered an independent work in its own right. In this essay, Shaw details his views on parent-child relationships, education, and the process of socialization.

The main topics include the following:

1. Criticism of the power relationship between parents and children
2. Raising questions about the traditional education system
3. Argument for the rights and freedom of children
4. Criticism of the way society treats children
5. Consideration of the roles of home education and public education

In this essay, Shaw argues that children should be respected as independent individuals, and criticizes excessive control and interference by parents. He also points out that the education system at the time suppresses children's creativity and individuality. In particular, the show emphasizes the freedom and rights of children, and criticizes society for treating children as mere immature beings. He argues that children should be provided with an environment where they can learn and grow through their own experiences.
"Treatise on Parents and Children" is considered a work that well displays Shaw's progressive and innovative ideas. Some of his ideas were very radical at the time, but many of them are in line with today's educational and child development theories.
This essay is still studied and cited in various fields such as education, child psychology, and sociology, and has had a great influence on modern discussions about parent-child relationships and education.
Overall, "Treatise on Parents and Children" is considered an important text that well displays Shaw's side as a social critic and his progressive ideas.

Summary
Childhood is a stage in the process of that continual remanufacture of the Life Stuff by which the human race is perpetuated. The Life Force either will not or cannot achieve immortality except in very low organisms: indeed it is by no means ascertained that even the amoeba is immortal. Human beings visibly wear out, though they last longer than their friends the dogs. Turtles, parrots, and elephants are believed to be capable of outliving the memory of the oldest human inhabitant. But the fact that new ones are born conclusively proves that they are not immortal. Do away with death and you do away with the need for birth: in fact if you went on breeding, you would finally have to kill old people to make room for young ones.

Contents
Trailing Clouds of Glory
The Child is Father to the Man
What is a Child?
The Sin of Nadab and Abihu
The Manufacture of Monsters
Small and Large Families
Children as Nuisances
Child Fanciers
Childhood as a State of Sin
School
My Scholastic Acquirements
Schoolmasters of Genius
What We Do Not Teach, and Why
Taboo in Schools
Alleged Novelties in Modern Schools
What is to be Done?
Children's Rights and Duties
Should Children Earn their Living?
Children's Happiness
The Horror of the Perpetual Holiday
University Schoolboyishness
The New Laziness
The Infinite School Task
The Rewards and Risks of Knowledge
English Physical Hardihood and Spiritual Cowardice
The Risks of Ignorance and Weakness
The Common Sense of Toleration
The Sin of Athanasius
The Experiment Experimenting
Why We Loathe Learning and Love Sport
Antichrist
Under the Whip
Technical Instruction
Docility and Dependence
The Abuse of Docility
The Schoolboy and the Homeboy
The Comings of Age of Children
The Conflict of Wills
The Demagogue's Opportunity
Our Quarrelsomeness
We Must Reform Society before we can Reform Ourselves
The Pursuit of Manners
Not too much Wind on the Heath, Brother
Wanted: a Child's Magna Charta
The Pursuit of Learning
Children and Game: a Proposal
The Parents' Intolerable Burden
Mobilization
Children's Rights and Parents' Wrongs
How Little We Know About Our Parents
Our Abandoned Mothers
Family Affection
The Fate of the Family
Family Mourning
Art Teaching
The Impossibility of Secular Education
Natural Selection as a Religion
Moral Instruction Leagues
The Bible
Artist Idolatry
"The Machine"
The Provocation to Anarchism
Imagination
Government by Bullies