137. Alte HS1stYr- Life and Learning (15)

1. What is Shaw’s interesting opinion on ‘routine’?
Ans: Routine, according to Show was supposed to suit everybody but in reality suits nobody. 

2. Why were English people going to live in Germany astonished? 
Ans: The English people going to live in Germany were astonished as they realised that German boots were not divorced into rights and lefts. 

3. Why is vinci’s notebook considered funny? 
Ans: Vinci’s notebook is considered funny for it claimed that the Earth is a moon of the sun. 

4. Why does Shaw call himself ‘an educated man’?
Ans: Shaw calls himself ‘an educated man’ for in the last sixty years of his life, he has acquired knowledge of subjects beyond those taught in his school. This has equipped him better in life for there is minimal gap between his acquired knowledge and life lessons. 

5. Why didn’t the governess teach Shaw the table logarithms and the binomial theorem? 
Ans: Shaw’s governess probably didn’t teach him the table logarithms and the binomial theorem because she, herself was not educated on it. 

6. Why does the author say that the hardest part of schooling is the early part? 
Ans: The author says that the hardest part of schooling is the early part because one is mechanically taught and forced to learn maximum information and facts of all subjects.

7. How can a crammer find out what questions are going to be asked? 
Ans: A crammer is able find out what questions are going to be asked in an examination as he rigorously goes through past years question papers and thereafter find questions that are actually asked and what are the answers expected by the examiner.

8. Why does Shaw say that once that students are safely through their examinations, they will discover their education to be defective?
Ans: This is because it rarely prepares students for life struggles. In fact, one shall find themselves uninstructed even in eating, drinking, sleeping and breathing. 

9. Who is a savage or an ignoramus according to Shaw? 
Ans: For Shaw, a savage or an ignoramus person is one who wrote books without knowing how to write. 

10. Why does Shaw think he has not grown up yet? 
Ans: Shaw think he has not grown up yet as he believes there is so much more knowledge that he is still yet to acquire. 

11. Why does to a crammer’? 
Ans: Shaw says that to do well in examination, ‘you must go to a crammer ’ for his rigorously goes through past years question papers and thereafter find questions that are actually asked and what are the answers expected by the exporter. 

12. ‘School to me was a sentence of penal servitude. ’ Explain. 
Ans: The above cited line ‘School to me was a sentence of penal servitude’ has been taken from Shaw’s essay, “Life and Learning”.The lines were uttered by the unnamed speaker as his artistic temperament was killed by the mechanical process of the schooling system which was not only defective but also redundant. 

13. How does Shaw argue that a routine, supposed to suit everybody, suits nobody? 
Ans: For Shaw a routine in school is like German boots that are supposed to suit everybody but suits nobody. This is because everyone is an unique individual with a different sets of talents, capacities and potentials that a routine can never give attention to, not enhance. 

14. Explain why is it dangerous to give up – to – date answers in the examinations? 
Ans: It is dangerous to give up -to- date answers in the examinations, for the examiners might be elderly who might know the information that you have access to;  or might not agree to your opinions which make him hold a inferior opinion about you.

15. Who wrote 'Life and Learning '?
A:- George Bernard Shaw is the author of ' Life and Learning'.

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