George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Learning
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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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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I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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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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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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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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