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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: keeping itself to itself, as the evil old saying is, and glowering at
the neighbors over the blinds of the long street in which nobody knows
his neighbor and everyone wishes to deceive him as to his income and
social importance, is in effect broken up by school life, by
out-of-door habits, and by frank neighborly intercourse through dances
and concerts and theatricals and excursions and the like, families of
four may turn out much less barbarous citizens than families of ten
which attain the Boer ideal of being out of sight of one another's
chimney smoke.
All one can say is, roughly, that the homelier the home, and the more
familiar the family, the worse for everybody concerned. The family
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