“The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.”

— George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Preface (1912)

About George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950

Irish playwright and critic, Nobel laureate in Literature (1925).

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

“From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.”

“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”

“It is time to take action so it becomes the last time that we see a child deprived of education.”

“I am here to speak for the right of education for every child.”

“My father says that education is neither Eastern or Western.”

“Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We can not learn men from books.”