The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Character actor' is a technical term denoting a clever stage performer who cannot act, and therefore makes an elaborate study of the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
