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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: laying his son's childhood waste with lessons, were superior, as
products of training, to our schoolboys. They were very conspicuously
superior in moral courage; and though they did not distinguish
themselves at cricket and football, they had quite as much physical
hardihood as any civilized man needs. But it is to be observed that
Ruskin's parents were wise people who gave John a full share in their
own life, and put up with his presence both at home and abroad when
they must sometimes have been very weary of him; and Mill, as it
happens, was deliberately educated to challenge all the most sacred
institutions of his country. The households they were brought up in
were no more average households than a Montessori school is an average
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