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Treatise on Parents and Children

Bernard Shaw

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. . .ccupation more than allowing me (much less forcing me) to remain in the school under such conditions. But in order to get expelled, it was necessary commit a crime of such atrocity that the parents of other boys would have threatened to remove their sons sooner than allow them to be schoolfellows with the delinquent. I can remember only one case in which such a penalty was threatened; and in that case the culprit, a boarder, had kissed a housemaid, or possibly, being a handsome youth, been kissed by her. She did not kiss me; and nobody ever dreamt of expelling me. The truth was, a boy meant just so much a year to the institution. That was why he was kept there against his will. That was why he was kept there when his expulsion would have been an unspeakable relief and benefit both to his teachers and himself.

It may be argued that if the uncommercial attitude had been taken, and all the disloyal wasters and idlers shewn sternly to the door, the school would no. . . Read More

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- Hugo - Sep 02, 2021

Hideous and blunt. Shaw is as terribly wrong as often as he is so specifically right in portraying human nature and the ills of society. A true and dangerous atheist, and, as all atheists, a clever critic and failed moralist.

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- Mac - Apr 18, 2019

Shaw's "Treatise on Parents and Children" is like a super-sized version of one of his play prefaces. Like them, it is provocative, interesting, and annoying, in various measures. Shaw's basic position on how parents should raise children is to let them do what they want. As for school, better to let

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- Oxana - Jan 12, 2016

My next book choice from my "To Read All Nobel Prize for Literature" project took me to the world of Bernard Shaw.

One hundred years later, George Bernard Shaw’s Treaties on parents and children (1914) may still challenge quite a few minds and ‚values’. So get ready for a mental earthquake, if a comb

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- Brad - Jan 09, 2008

In a characteristically polemic essay, Shaw excoriated schools as prisons and family homes as theaters of abuse and neglect. He argued that children who are governed for the convenience of adults—through the use or threat of violence, uninspired and dogmatic instruction, and confinement to the schoo

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