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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: savagery now called "the simple life." Their natural disgust with the
visions of cockney book fanciers blowing themselves out with "the wind
on the heath, brother," and of anarchists who are either too weak to
understand that men are strong and free in proportion to the social
pressure they can stand and the complexity of the obligations they are
prepared to undertake, or too strong to realize that what is freedom
to them may be terror and bewilderment to others, will drive them back
to the home and the school if these have meanwhile learned the lesson
that children are independent human beings and have rights.
Wanted: a Child's Magna Charta
Whether we shall presently be discussing a Juvenile Magna Charta or
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