George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalionand Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 July 1856
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.