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"Child sacrifice was practiced by the Irish Celts, the Gauls, the Scandinavians, the Egyptians, the Phoenicians, the Moabites, the Ammonites, and, in certain periods, the Israelites.(122) Thousands of bones of sacrificed children have been dug up by archeologists, often with inscriptions identifying the victims as first-born sons of noble families, reaching in time all the way back to the Jericho of 7,000 B.C."
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- In Rome, liberal education loses relevance and there is much less attention to physical education and sports. The aim of education is to train good speakers, "to embellish the soul of young people through rhetoric."
- the Greeks and Romans couldn’t keep their hands off children. The favorite sexual use of children, however, was not fellatio, but anal intercourse
- Education was the most important
- Girls were homeschooled
- boys went to militar train
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-Throughout the Middle Ages the liberal education idea disappeared completely. Does not about already to train “free thinkers” but the objective of education is to prepare the child for serve God,
-Childhood in the Middle Ages was unimportant, boys and girls were seen as sinful beings full of evil and therefore adults did not show the slightest interest in their physical and mental development. Girls were not taken into account, their life goal was to grow submissive to men -
-An important change in the conceptions of human nature and, consequently, of the child, comes from the empiricist current in philosophy
-advice to temper childhood beatings began in earnest, although even then it was generally accompanied by approval for beatings judiciously applied
-It was not until the 16th century that childhood began to be considered as a stage of life with unique characteristics. Until then, children were considered adults from the age of 7 -
The children stopped working, they had so much free time that the need began to be seen school: the goal began to be education. They were educated with military discipline. Today it is forbidden for children to work, however, there are still parents who they force them to do so in order to get more money for the household. -
-Is the time in which education treaties are basically focus on socialization of the child and, for the first time, the parents are systematically interested in the child.
-The XIX century is, for the first time, the century
of childhood and there will be a clear pedagogical concern for protection,
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parents are interested in the development of characteristics, aptitudes and abilities of children
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At present, childhood has been understood from a sociocultural perspective, which leads to conceive the term childhood as a social, cultural and historical construction that makes sense from the context and the daily realities in which the child interacts with the world
