A fresh look at the child

Centuries ago the idea that little child shall lead was put forth at the beginning of the Christian era, and from time to time a crusade seemed to demonstrate that this was no passing notion. Today children in their teens-perhaps beginning with Catcher in the Rye-are trying to tell it like it is, while even younger children can be seen in groups marching for peace. In Children of Crisis Dr. Robert Coles described eloquently how little black children courageously coped with the rejection, threats, taunts, and physical assaults confronting them on entrance into previously lily white schools. In Thirty Six Children Herbert Kohl illustrates with vivid quotations the forthright descriptions of their slum neighborhoods by sixth grade children. From time to time newspapers report children's activities in helping younger ones to learn, cleaning up their slum block, raising money for New York's neediest. But all of these did not prepare the country for the teenage hippies, with their search for peace, sincerity, and love in the pattern of early Christianity, or the mass gatherings-as at a Mecca-at Woodstock for music, at Washington for the Peace Moratorium-teenagers who quietly told about how beautiful it was, what a good feeling to be there, all together. Gardner Murphy Professor of Psychology Henry March Pfeiffer Research Training Chair in Psychiatry The Menninger Foundation

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