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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: become the prey of the greedy, the selfish, the domineering, the
unscrupulous, the predatory. If here and there an individual refuses
to be docile, ten docile persons will beat him or lock him up or shoot
him or hang him at the bidding of his oppressors and their own. The
crux of the whole difficulty about parents, schoolmasters, priests,
absolute monarchs, and despots of every sort, is the tendency to abuse
natural docility. A nation should always be healthily rebellious; but
the king or prime minister has yet to be found who will make trouble
by cultivating that side of the national spirit. A child should begin
to assert itself early, and shift for itself more and more not only in
washing and dressing itself, but in opinions and conduct; yet as
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