A Treatise on Parents and Children
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    A Treatise on Parents and Children
                                            
                            By George Bernard Shaw
                            
                                10 Dec, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Shaw's "Treatise on Parents and Children" is like a super-sized version of one of his play prefaces. Like them, it is provocative, interesting, and annoying, in various measures. Shaw's basic position on how parents should raise children is to let th
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                                                Shaw's "Treatise on Parents and Children" is like a super-sized version of one of his play prefaces. Like them, it is provocative, interesting, and annoying, in various measures. Shaw's basic position on how parents should raise children is to let them do what they want. As for school, better to let kids loose in a library to read whatever they want. The standard view of things is always wrong; Papa Shaw knows best. Less