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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: us every day in the shape of crime and disease and vice; but still the
practice of keeping children barely alive at the charge of the
community is established; and there is no need for me to argue about
it. I propose only two extensions of the practice. One is to provide
for all the child's reasonable human wants, on which point, if you
differ from me, I shall take leave to say that you are socially a fool
and personally an inhuman wretch. The other is that these wants
should be supplied in complete freedom from compulsory schooling or
compulsory anything except restraint from crime, though, as they can
be supplied only by social organization, the child must be conscious
of and subject to the conditions of that organization, which may
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