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Ambitious Parents: Apart from the necessary routine demands on time, there are the irregular occasions for which time must be found: for meetings to do the planning, for the first meeting with parents, for occasional further meetings and perhaps home visits. And, once the scheme is going well, schools may become more ambitious. Parents might be asked to help with other areas of the curriculum, perhaps, or a school could invite parents to evening workshops at which particular aspects of the curriculum are presented for discussion.
When he went back to his native Spain, it was only for a very short time. He had become alienated from his parents. Their middle-class preconceptions made it impossible for them to understand either their son's Bohemian attitudes or the lack of control in his art. They felt that their hopes for Pablo to become an academic painter of local significance had been disappointed. What mattered to them was that their son would not make their name famous. But they were wrong. After his clashes with his parents, Picasso also had to give up his ambitious plans to publish an art magazine. The project failed after only a few editions. Disappointed with the provincialism of his native country, he returned to Paris in May 1901.
City children are often overstimulated. Noise, speed, manifold distractions and attractions, ambitious parents, a competitive school atmosphere often stimulate the child to be more active than he would naturally choose to be. Country children, on the other hand, may come to school |
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