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Brainy Quote ~ George Bernard Shaw 006 “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” ~ George Bernard Shaw 006 ~ Ok "Waspadalah terhadap pengetahuan palsu; Itu lebih berbahaya daripada ketidaktahuan." ~ George Bernard Shaw 006 ~ Ok Riset! Apakah engkau memiliki pengetahuan terhadap segala sesuatu? Mungkinkah seseorang tahu segalanya? Tentu tidak, kan?! Setiap orang memang memiliki keahlian di bidang tertentu. Namun, tak seorang pun memiliki pengetahuan terhadap segala sesuatu, baik di atas bumi maupun di bawah bumi. Hal yang berbahaya adalah ketika seseorang seolah memiliki pengetahuan, padahal pengetahuannya tidaklah benar. Hal itu sangat berbahaya! Bahkan, ia lebih berbahaya daripada ketidaktahuan itu sendiri. Seperti yang di quote George Bernard Shaw, seorang penulis dan dramawan, kelahiran Dublin – Irlandia, hidup dalam rentang tahun 1856-1950 (94 tahun), ‘Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.’ Secara bebas diterjemahkan, ‘Waspadalah terhadap pengetahuan palsu; Itu lebih berbahaya daripada ketidaktahuan.’ Berhati-hatilah terhadap pengetahuan palsu. Hal itu dapat menjadi malapetaka. Sebagai contoh, andaikan seorang dokter gadungan yang tidak pernah mengikuti pendidikan akademik yang cukup melakukan praktik medis, kemungkinan ia dapat ‘membunuh’ pasien yang diterapinya. Demikian juga, bila seseorang yang tidak memiliki cukup informasi, kemudian ia menyebarkan pengetahuan palsu. Maka, sesungguhnya ia menyebarkan berita hoaks, yang dapat memicu ‘perpecahan’ atau bahkan ‘pertikaian’. Hal itu benar-benar berbahaya bagi keharmonisan hubungan sosial antar umat manusia. Brainy Quote ~ George Bernard Shaw 006 Page 1 Milikilah pengetahuan yang benar, kemudian sebarkanlah! Hal itu akan memberi manfaat bagi banyak orang. Bila engkau menyadari pengetahuanmu masih belum cukup, belajarlah! Semoga engkau tidak menyebarkan pengetahuan palsu yang hanya menyebabkan kerugian bagi orang lain. Mendesiminasikan pengetahuan yang benar, merupakan keniscayaan yang memberi manfaat, jauh lebih besar dibandingkan mudarat. Indonesia, 13 Oktober 2019 Riset Corporation --- George Bernard Shaw Biography.com Author, Playwright (1856–1950) Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote more than 60 plays during his lifetime and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. QUOTES: “A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul.”— George Bernard Shaw Synopsis George Bernard Shaw was born July 26, 1856, in Dublin, Ireland. In 1876 he moved to London, where he wrote regularly but struggled financially. In 1895, he became a theater critic for the Saturday Review and began writing plays of his own. His play Pygmalion was later made into a film twice, and the screenplay he wrote for the first version of it won an Oscar. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 60 plays and won many other awards, among them the Nobel Prize. Early Years Playwright George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, on July 26, 1856. The third and youngest child, Shaw's early education took the form of tutoring sessions provided by his clerical uncle. Early on, Shaw explored the worlds of the arts (music, art, literature) under his mother's guidance and through regular visits to the National Gallery of Ireland. In 1872, Shaw's mother left her husband and took Shaw's two sisters to London, and four years later Shaw followed (his younger sister had died in the meantime), deciding to become a writer. Shaw struggled financially, and his mother essentially supported him while he spent time in the British Museum reading room, working on his first novels. The Writing Life Begins Unfortunately, despite the time he spent writing them, his novels were dismal failures, widely rejected by publishers. Shaw soon turned his attention to politics and the activities of the British intelligentsia, joining the Fabian Society in 1884. The Fabian Society was a socialist group whose goal was nothing short of the transformation of England through a more vibrant political and intellectual base, and Shaw became heavily involved, even editing a famous tract the group published (Fabian Essays in Socialism, 1889). The year after he joined the Fabian Society, Shaw landed some writing work in the form of book reviews and art, music and theater criticism, and in 1895 he was brought aboard the Saturday Review as its theater critic. It was at this point that Shaw began writing plays of his own. Brainy Quote ~ George Bernard Shaw 006 Page 2 The Dramatist Shaw's first plays were published in volumes titled "Plays Unpleasant" (containing Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession) and "Plays Pleasant" (which had Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny and You Never Can Tell). The plays were filled with what would become Shaw's signature wit, accompanied by healthy doses of social criticism, which stemmed from his Fabian Society leanings. These plays would not go on to be his best remembered, or those for which he had high regard, but they laid the groundwork for the oversized career to come. The Literary Giant Toward the end of the 19th century, beginning with Caesar and Cleopatra (written in 1898), Shaw's writing came into its own, the product of a mature writer hitting on all cylinders. In 1903, Shaw wrote Man and Superman, whose third act, "Don Juan in Hell," achieved a status larger than the play itself and is often staged as a separate play entirely. While Shaw would write plays for the next 50 years, the plays written in the 20 years after Man and Superman would become foundational plays in his oeuvre. Works such as Major Barbara (1905), The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), Pygmalion (1912), Androcles and the Lion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923) all firmly established Shaw as a leading dramatist of his time. In 1925, Shaw was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Pygmalion, one of Shaw's most famous plays, was adapted to the big screen in 1938, earning Shaw an Academy Award for writing the screenplay. Pygmalion went on to further fame when it was adapted into a musical and became a hit, first on the Broadway stage (1956) with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, and later on the screen (1964) with Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. Shaw died in 1950 at age 94 while working on yet another play. Adopted from: https://www.biography.com/people/george-bernard-shaw-9480925 George Bernard Shaw IRISH DRAMATIST AND CRITIC WRITTEN BY: John I.M. Stewart; Stanley Weintraub George Bernard Shaw, (born July 26, 1856, Dublin, Ire.—died Nov. 2, 1950, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, Eng.), Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. Early Life And Career George Bernard Shaw was the third and youngest child (and only son) of George Carr Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw. Technically, he belonged to the Protestant “ascendancy”—the landed Irish gentry—but his impractical father was first a sinecured civil servant and then an unsuccessful grain merchant, and George Bernard grew up in an atmosphere of genteel poverty, which to him was more humiliating than being merely poor. At first Shaw was tutored by a clerical uncle, and he basically rejected the schools he then attended; by age 16 he was working in a land agent’s office. Shaw developed a wide knowledge of music, art, and literature as a result of his mother’s influence and his visits to the National Gallery of Ireland. In 1872 his mother left her husband and took her two daughters to London, following her music teacher, George John Vandeleur Lee, who from 1866 had shared households in Dublin with the Shaws. In 1876 Shaw resolved to become a writer, and he joined his mother and elder sister (the younger one having died) in London. Shaw in his 20s suffered Brainy Quote ~ George Bernard Shaw 006 Page 3 continuous frustration and poverty. He depended upon his mother’s pound a week from her husband and her earnings as a music teacher. He spent his afternoons in the British Museum reading room, writing novels and reading what he had missed at school, and his evenings in search of additional self-education in the lectures and debates that characterized contemporary middle-class London intellectual activities. His fiction failed utterly. The semiautobiographical and aptly titled Immaturity (1879; published 1930) repelled every publisher in London. His next four novels were similarly refused, as were most of the articles he submitted to the press for a decade. Shaw’s initial literary work earned him less than 10 shillings a year. A fragment posthumously published as An Unfinished Novel in 1958 (but written 1887–88) was his final false start in fiction. Despite his failure as a novelist in the 1880s, Shaw found himself during this decade. He became a vegetarian, a socialist, a spellbinding orator, a polemicist, and tentatively a playwright. He became the force behind the newly founded (1884) Fabian Society, a middle-class socialist group that aimed at the transformation of English society not through revolution but through “permeation” (in Sidney Webb’s term) of the country’s intellectual and political life. Shaw involved himself in every aspect of its activities, most visibly as editor of one of the classics of British socialism, Fabian Essays in Socialism (1889), to which he also contributed two sections. Eventually, in 1885, the drama critic William Archer found Shaw steady journalistic work. His early journalism ranged from book reviews in the Pall Mall Gazette (1885–88) and art criticism in the World (1886–89) to brilliant musical columns in the Star (as “Corno di Bassetto”—basset horn) from 1888 to 1890 and in the World (as “G.B.S.”) from 1890 to 1894. Shaw had a good understanding of music, particularly opera, and he supplemented his knowledge with a brilliance of digression that gives many of his notices a permanent appeal. But Shaw truly began to make his mark when he was recruited by Frank Harris to the Saturday Review as theatre critic (1895–98); in that position he used all his wit and polemical powers in a campaign to displace the artificialities and hypocrisies of the Victorian stage with a theatre of vital ideas.