8 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Education

George Bernard Shaw quotes on education

28. Our natural dispositions may be good; but we have been badly brought up, and are full of anti-social personal ambitions and prejudices and snobberies. Had we not better teach our children to be better citizens than ourselves? We are not doing that at present. The Russians ARE. That is my last word. Think over it.

56. The schoolboy who uses his Homer to throw at his fellow's head makes perhaps the safest and most rational use of him than any one ever will.

57. Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred.

59. We must either breed political capacity or be ruined by Democracy, which was forced on us by the failure of the older alternatives. Yet if Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

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

215. What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the

232. The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

235. The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.