“In a less barbarous society children would not be in absolute economic subjection to the irrational beings into whose keeping fate has consigned them: they would be paid a decent hourly wage for attending school. As we don’t live in that enlightened society any adult, and especially a parent, has a terrible power over a child – how could I give that power to a man who – sometimes I thought I could and once I even picked up the phone but when I thought about it I just couldn’t. I.”
