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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: persons should be allowed greater control of their property the day
after they are twenty-one than the day before it. There is no logical
reason why I, who strongly object to an adult standing over a boy of
ten with a Latin grammar, and saying, "you must learn this, whether
you want to or not," should nevertheless be quite prepared to stand
over a boy of five with the multiplication table or a copy book or a
code of elementary good manners, and practice on his docility to make
him learn them. And there is no logical reason why I should do for a
child a great many little offices, some of them troublesome and
disagreeable, which I should not do for a boy twice its age, or
support a boy or girl when I would unhesitatingly throw an adult on
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