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Those Who Can.(teaching)
From: Southerly
Date: 19980622
Author:MILLER, PATTI
George Bernard Shaw's quotation that "he who can, does; he who cannot, teaches" is an unfair condemnation of those who instruct students in English and literature. While Shaw believed that truly talented writers confined themselves to their art, authors who decide to teach make equally important contributions to the literary form through the instruction of others.
"He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches," remarked George Bernard Shaw dismissively in Man and Superman, and so have repeated any number of commentators since.
With one neat sentence they keep in check that vast tribe of ...
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