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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: childhood. The unoccupied adult, thus afflicted, tries many
distractions which are, to say the least, unsuited to children. But
one of them, the distraction of seeing the world, is innocent and
beneficial. Also it is childish, being a continuation of what nurses
call "taking notice," by which a child becomes experienced. It is
pitiable nowadays to see men and women doing after the age of 45 all
the travelling and sightseeing they should have done before they were
15. Mere wondering and staring at things is an important part of a
child's education: that is why children can be thoroughly mobilized
without making vagabonds of them. A vagabond is at home nowhere
because he wanders: a child should wander because it ought to be at
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