«Розумна людина пристосовується до світу, а нерозумна наполегливо намагається пристосувати світ до себе. Тому весь прогрес залежить від нерозумної лю… - George Bernard Shaw
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«Розумна людина пристосовується до світу, а нерозумна наполегливо намагається пристосувати світ до себе. Тому весь прогрес залежить від нерозумної людини». — Джордж Бернард Шоу, Людина і Супермен
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist with a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory. He wrote more than sixty plays, including such works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching.
