That's not actually true. See "The Disappearance of Childhood" by Neil Postman for a thorough discussion of the topic. He views childhood as having been invented sometime after the middle ages, when social, as opposed to craft literacy, emerged with the development of the printing press. It existed for a few centuries, but is now being destroyed by the destruction of print culture.
That's not actually true. See "The Disappearance of Childhood" by Neil Postman for a thorough discussion of the topic. He views childhood as having been invented sometime after the middle ages, when social, as opposed to craft literacy, emerged with the development of the printing press. It existed for a few centuries, but is now being destroyed by the destruction of print culture.
That's not actually true. See "The Disappearance of Childhood" by Neil Postman for a thorough discussion of the topic. He views childhood as having been invented sometime after the middle ages, when social, as opposed to craft literacy, emerged with the development of the printing press. It existed for a few centuries, but is now being destroyed by the destruction of print culture.