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  • Essay / George Bernard Shaw: critic, writer and activist

    As well as being a political activist, literary and music critic and novelist, George Bernard Shaw was a notable playwright to boot; his extraordinary comments on facets of life such as marriage, education, government, religion, and social status set him apart from other playwrights of his time. The days of George Bernard Shaw's education played a small but important role in his career. The effect of his educational career as a student often carried over into his literature. During his childhood and adolescence, he changed schools several times. After that, he held a lifelong grudge against teachers and schools in general. In a letter to a colleague, Shaw said: "Schools and schoolmasters, such as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather as prisons and turnkey in which children are kept to prevent them from disturbing and chaperoning their parents. ยป Letter dated August 7, 1919 to Thomas Demetrius O'Bolger). This dislike of the education system, both public and private, is apparent in most of Shaw's works....