Figure 1.--Each of the children were interesting individuals in their own rights. One clearly observeable impact of a prep school education was that the children were for the most part both polite and well spoken. The schools do a good job of prtecting the children from many of the negative aspects of modern culture while promoting both imagination and curiosity. It was interesting discussing with them their ideas and interests.

Editorial

We both profess to enjoy the simple pleasures of life, and it comes as a surprise to find just how sophisticated some of today's children have become. Gone is the charm of childhood: innocense and curiosity are things of a bygone age; imagination and the world of make-believe have become prissy and unattractive. Many modern children seen to have been catapulted into the adult world , with little thought for each individual's developing maturity, security and sensitivity. These wordly-wise, materialistic child sophisticates, with adult ambitions and adult tastes in music, fashion and films are in strong contrast with their predecessors of the 1950s.

Children mature physically much earlier nowadays and consequently their minds and emptions struggle to keep pace. Television has no helped with its image of an unreal world of high fashion, slick monosyllabic conversation and violence, all to easily imitated and considered as normal 'cool' behaviour.

The Bramcote Magazine, Autumn 1984.

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