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G. B. SHAW’S SCHOOLDAYS NOT GROWN UP YET Education Starts On Leaving School Press Association —Copyright. Received 12.30 p.m. London, June 13. George Bernard Shaw, broadcasting to the scholars of the sixth forms of secondary schools throughout Britain, described his own schooldays as penal servitude. “You think you are growing up, but after 81 years I find I have not grown up,” he said. “You will escape from school to find the world a bigger school. Your examiners will be elderly gentlemen whose knowledge is certain to be more or less out of date.
“The subjects which interested me were never taught in school. I could read all the English masterpieces, but could not read the schoolbooks because they were written by people who did not know how to write.”
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 456, 14 June 1937, Page 5
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132PENAL SERVITUDE Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 456, 14 June 1937, Page 5
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