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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: When we come to the positive problem of what to do with children if we
are to give up the established plan, we find the difficulties so great
that we begin to understand why so many people who detest the system
and look back with loathing on their own schooldays, must helplessly
send their children to the very schools they themselves were sent to,
because there is no alternative except abandoning the children to
undisciplined vagabondism. Man in society must do as everybody else
does in his class: only fools and romantic novices imagine that
freedom is a mere matter of the readiness of the individual to snap
his fingers at convention. It is true that most of us live in a
condition of quite unnecessary inhibition, wearing ugly and
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