The Road of Awakening: The Development of Human Self-consciousness and the Change of the View of Children

Abstract

Human self-consciousness serves as the mirror of children's perspective. Fundamentally, the notion of children is essentially the orientation of human society towards the survival and development of immature human larvae. The development and transformation of the concept of children can be probed from the course of the development of human self-consciousness in diverse periods. This paper reviews the development status of human self-consciousness in the primitive period, the farming period, the industrial revolution period, up to the electrical revolution of the 20th century and the corresponding era's view of children, and elaborates on the reasons why the view of children is influenced and changed by the productivity of different eras.