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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: making it learn instalments of Bible verses, preferably from the book
of Numbers. But as it is less trouble to set a lesson that you know
yourself, there is a tendency to keep repeating the already learnt
lesson rather than break new ground. At school I began with a fairly
complete knowledge of Latin grammar in the childish sense of being
able to repeat all the paradigms; and I was kept at this, or rather
kept in a class where the master never asked me to do it because he
knew I could, and therefore devoted himself to trapping the boys who
could not, until I finally forgot most of it. But when progress took
place, what did it mean? First it meant Caesar, with the
foreknowledge that to master Caesar meant only being set at Virgil,
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