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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: to learn them as long as they are of any importance in life: indeed
the want will survive their importance: superstition is nowhere
stronger than in the field of obsolete acquirements. And they will
never be learnt fruitfully by people who do not want to learn them
either for their own sake or for use in necessary work. There is no
harder schoolmaster than experience; and yet experience fails to teach
where there is no desire to learn.
Still, one must not begin to apply this generalization too early. And
this brings me to an important factor in the case: the factor of
evolution.
Docility and Dependence
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