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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: scruples, and may therefore be very bad company for the child.
Here we have come to the central fact of the question: a fact nobody
avows, which is yet the true explanation of the monstrous system of
child imprisonment and torture which we disguise under such
hypocrisies as education, training, formation of character and the
rest of it. This fact is simply that a child is a nuisance to a
grown-up person. What is more, the nuisance becomes more and more
intolerable as the grown-up person becomes more cultivated, more
sensitive, and more deeply engaged in the highest methods of adult
work. The child at play is noisy and ought to be noisy: Sir Isaac
Newton at work is quiet and ought to be quiet. And the child should
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