The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off...

The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.

George Bernard Shaw Quote About Children, Teaching, Hands: The Schoolmaster Is The Person...

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