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George Bernard Shaw had several opinions on education routines: 1) School routines are like ill-fitting socks and boots that don't properly fit any student. 2) In the past, English people visiting Germany were surprised that German boots were not made for left or right feet specifically. 3) Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are considered funny because they contain sketches and notes written in reverse Italian script from right to left. Shaw calls himself educated because he has earned a living for 60 years through work that only a highly educated person could do. His governess may not have known advanced mathematical concepts like logarithms and binomial theorem, so she did not teach them to Shaw.

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Life and Learning

George Bernard Shaw had several opinions on education routines: 1) School routines are like ill-fitting socks and boots that don't properly fit any student. 2) In the past, English people visiting Germany were surprised that German boots were not made for left or right feet specifically. 3) Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks are considered funny because they contain sketches and notes written in reverse Italian script from right to left. Shaw calls himself educated because he has earned a living for 60 years through work that only a highly educated person could do. His governess may not have known advanced mathematical concepts like logarithms and binomial theorem, so she did not teach them to Shaw.

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1. What is Shaw’s interesting opinion on ‘routine’?

Ans: According to George Bernard Shaw, school routines are like the socks
and the old German boots: they are neither rights nor lefts, and
consequently they don’t fit any human beings properly. But we have to
manage with them somehow.

2. Why were English people going to live in Germany astonished?

Ans: According to Shaw, there was a time when English people going to live
in Germany were astonished to find that German boots were not divided into
rights and lefts: a boot was a boot and it did not matter which foot you put it
on, your foot had to make the best of it.

3. Why is da Vinci’s notebook considered funny?

Ans: Leonardo da Vinci’s notebook is considered funny because they contain


sketches and diagrams annotated with notes in Italian mirror writing, which
reads in reverse and from right to left.

4. Why does Shaw call himself ‘an educated man’?

Ans: According to George Bernard Shaw, he has earned his living for the
last sixty years by work which only an educated man, and even a highly
educated one, could do. That is why he calls himself ‘an educated man.’

5. Why didn’t the governess teach Shaw the table of logarithms and the
binomial theorem?

Ans: According to Shaw, perhaps his governess herself had not known the
table of logarithms and binomial theorem. That is why, she did not teach
him.

III. Answer these questions in two or three sentences.

1. Why does the author say that the hardest part of schooling is the early
part?
Ans: In the essay ‘Life and Learning’ the author G.B. Shaw rightly says that
the hardest part of school life is the early part. In this period student
remains tender aged. But they have to learn a lot. But they possess
excellent power of memorising. They have to learn everything by rote
even without understanding the meaning of them. They have to know up
to 12 times 12 and how many shilling are there in any number of pence
up to 144 without looking at a book. They must understand their lessons
fully and quickly just as they understand people talking to them.

2. How can a crammer find out what questions are going to be asked?

Ans : According to G.B Shaw , to pass examination with flying colours ,one
must go to a crammer. It may not be possible for students to know what
questions are going to be asked and what answers are expected by the
examiners. But, for a crammer it is possible .It is true that he can not see
the questions papers beforehand. A crammer studies all the old question
papers and finds out what are the questions that are frequently asked.
Then he finds out what are the answers Expected by the examiners and
which answers are officially recognised as correct answers.

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