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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: any vulnerable part of it that could not be amputated with advantage.
Art Teaching
By art teaching I hasten to say that I do not mean giving children
lessons in freehand drawing and perspective. I am simply calling
attention to the fact that fine art is the only teacher except
torture. I have already pointed out that nobody, except under threat
of torture, can read a school book. The reason is that a school book
is not a work of art. Similarly, you cannot listen to a lesson or a
sermon unless the teacher or the preacher is an artist. You cannot
read the Bible if you have no sense of literary art. The reason why
the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so
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