George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
He meant to say “repository” and not “suppository”. The latter is a capsule of medicine that is placed inside the rectum.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Historically, for many Americans the educated were considered as elite in a very positive sense. Other people at other times saw educated elites as dangerous to religion and conservatism. Here the educate are described as an “aristocracy” and the only aristocracy that was acceptable and desirable
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
