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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: schoolmaster whom you would call a hedge schoolmaster (he would not be
allowed to teach anything now) and that it took four years of Harrow
to obliterate that knowledge and change the love into loathing.
Another friend of mine who keeps a school in the suburbs, and who
deeply deplores my "prejudice against schoolmasters," has offered to
accept my challenge to tell his pupils that they are as free to get up
and go out of the school at any moment as their parents are to get up
and go out of a theatre where my plays are being performed. Even
among my own schoolmasters I can recollect a few whose classes
interested me, and whom I should certainly have pestered for
information and instruction if I could have got into any decent human
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