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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: and in Scotland; but their belief did not help them until Bedales and
St George's were organized; and there are still not nearly enough
co-educational schools in existence to accommodate all the children of
the parents who believe in co-education up to university age, even if
they could always afford the fees of these exceptional schools. It
may be edifying to tell a duke that our public schools are all wrong
in their constitution and methods, or a costermonger that children
should be treated as in Goethe's Wilhelm Meister instead of as they
are treated at the elementary school at the corner of his street; but
what are the duke and the coster to do? Neither of them has any
effective choice in the matter: their children must either go to the
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