Citation

Zuckerman M. Early Child Res. Q. 1987; 2(3): 255-264.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0885-2006(87)90034-2

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

More than a century ago, American educators decried the overpressure and overcompetitiveness of the country's schools. These concerns have endured through subsequent generations. During this period, such technological innovations in mass distribution of information as the telegraph, the telephone, and television have failed to reduce the public's degree of stress. Thus it is unlikely that the use of computers will provide significant relief from everyday pressures. Today's children should learn about emotions and attitudes as well as intellectual skills. Any child's development is unpredictable and depends on the child's temperament. Parents cannot engineer a child's intelligence in any mechanistic sense, but Americans' mechanization of their ideas of the world and of themselves will continue to affect efforts to educate their children.