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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: friend. "Two pounds" said the officer; and two pounds it was. The
blood money was paid cheerfully; and I have ever since advised
elementary schoolmasters to qualify themselves in the art of
self-defence, as the British Constitution expresses our national
estimate of them by allowing us to blacken three of their eyes for the
same price as one of an ordinary professional man. How many Froebels
and Pestalozzis and Miss Masons and Doctoress Montessoris would you be
likely to get on these terms even if they occurred much more
frequently in nature than they actually do?
No: I cannot be put off by the news that our system would be perfect
if it were worked by angels. I do not admit it even at that, just as
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