Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young by Jacob Abbott: This educational work offers parents and educators valuable insights into effective and compassionate methods of managing and training young minds. Jacob Abbott emphasizes the importance of patience, understanding, and gentle guidance in nurturing the intellectual and moral development of children, providing practical advice for fostering a positive and harmonious learning environment. Key Aspects of the Book "Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young": Child Rearing and Education: The book provides guidance on fostering a positive and nurturing environment for children's intellectual and moral development. Empathy and Understanding: Abbott advocates for gentle and empathetic approaches to managing and training young minds, recognizing the importance of individual needs and learning styles. Practical Advice: "Gentle Measures" offers practical strategies and techniques for parents and educators to implement in their interactions with children. Jacob Abbott (1803-1879) was an American author and educator, best known for his educational and biographical works for children and young adults. He was a prolific writer, with a focus on creating engaging and informative literature that appealed to young readers. Abbott's contributions to children's literature and his dedication to promoting positive and constructive educational methods have left a lasting impact on the field of education.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Large Format for easy reading. Guide to the moral instruction of the young from the 19th Century American writer of history and biographies for children.

This book explores the social history of training and development and describes how ordinary training systems were linked to extraordinary events. Using instrumental case studies, the author explores the direct and indirect motives behind famous and infamous training systems of history such as the methods used by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the Beatles, those used by the Third Reich in training forced labor, and in the social guidance films of the 1950’s, among others. This book links modern-day themes of corporate and community social responsibility and social justice to historical cases of workplace and community training; in addition, it offers a unique view of business history that students and scholars can relate to, and contributes to a more thorough and robust inquiry into critical human resource development, ethics in the workplace, and the nature of training adults, in general.

The concept of Identity Crisis came into usage in the 1940s and it has continued to dominate the cultural zeitgeist ever since. In his exploration of the historical origins of this development, Frank Furedi argues that the principal driver of the ‘crisis of identity’ was and continues to be the conflict surrounding the socialisation of young people. In turn, the politicisation of this conflict provides a terrain on which the Culture Wars and the politicisation of identity can flourish. Through exploring the interaction between the problems of socialisation and identity, this study offers a unique account of the origins and rise of the Culture Wars.

CONTENTS Three Modes of Management What Are Gentle Measures? There Must Be Authority Gentle Punishment of Disobedience The Philosophy of Punishment Rewarding Obedience The Art of Training Methods Exemplified Della and the Dolls Sympathy: -I. The Child with the Parent Sympathy: -Ii. The Parent with the Child Commendation and Encouragement Faults of Immaturity The Activity of Children The Imagination in Children Truth and Falsehood Judgment and Reasoning Wishes and Requests Children's Questions The Use of Money Corporal Punishment Gratitude in Children Religious Training Conclusion About the author: Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 - October 31, 1879) was an American writer of children's books. On November 14, 1803, Abbott was born in Hallowell, Maine to Jacob Abbott II and Betsey Chandler. He attended the Hallowell Academy. Abbott graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820. At some point during his years there, he supposedly added the second "t" to his surname, to avoid being "Jacob Abbot the 3rd" (although one source notes he did not actually begin signing his name with two t's until several years later). Abbott studied at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824. He taught in Portland academy and was tutor in Amherst College during the next year. From 1825 to 1829 Abbott was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and was principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded), at Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys, in New York City. He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief histories, biographies, religious books for the general reader, and a few works in popular science. He wrote 180 books and was a coauthor or editor of 31 more. He died in Farmington, Maine, where he had spent part of his time after 1839, and where his brother, Samuel Phillips Abbott, founded the Abbott School. His Rollo Books, such as Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, etc., are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, The History of Sandford and Merton, and The Parent's Assistant. To follow up his Rollo books, he wrote of Uncle George, using him to teach the young readers about ethics, geography, history, and science. He also wrote 22 volumes of biographical histories and a 10 volume set titled the Franconia Stories. (wikipedia.org)