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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: Once, stung by the airs of a schoolfellow who alleged that he had read
Locke On The Human Understanding, I attempted to read the Bible
straight through, and actually got to the Pauline Epistles before I
broke down in disgust at what seemed to me their inveterate
crookedness of mind. If there had been a school where children were
really free, I should have had to be driven out of it for the sake of
my health by the teachers; for the children to whom a literary
education can be of any use are insatiable: they will read and study
far more than is good for them. In fact the real difficulty is to
prevent them from wasting their time by reading for the sake of
reading and studying for the sake of studying, instead of taking some
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