George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Education
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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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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.
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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
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Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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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.
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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