Can one expand on this George Bernard Shaw quote?

Those who can’t teach….Fluther! (Including me.)

George Bernard Shaw on Broadway.

‘Those who can’t do teach’, Albert Einstein

You do that voodoo that you do. Mel Brooks.

I disagree with the quote because I did (for 30-years) and I teach (with an 18-year overlap when I did both).

So…Those who write narrow minded proverbs should shut the hell up.

But they are the Wise Guys. And not the “Good Fellas” kind.

Consider the tennis player & his coach. If you have no particular talent in either discipline, you spectate.

@cookieman

Lol!

Do you have rude advice for any other playwrights?
Did Shakespeare write anything that you found annoying?

I tell ya, if I had ever seen Kurt Vonnegut, I’d have shoved a copy of Slaughterhouse 5 in his face and yelled at him to, “Learn how time works, Einstein! ~”. ;)

Woody Allen added:
“Those who can’t teach, teach gym.”

The variation that I heard is, “And those who can’t teach, teach teachers.

Those who can’t teach others can at least teach themselves.

Those that can, do. Those that can’t, teach. Those that can’t do either become activist to tell you how to do and to teach.

This quote represents a smug, backwards kind of 19th century thinking that viewed history as being primarily moved by the singular actions of great men. These great men supposedly had superior intellects and characters and were just plain better than everyone else.

The quote is suggesting that you just know that the academic class is in some way, intellectually, morally or spiritually, inferior. After all, why would these men with so much knowledge end up teaching, instead of moving the world? In the 19th century, this counted as an argument.

In the 21st century, it’s still good copy, so it has survived, with whatever hateful meanings people choose to ascribe to it.

Shakespeare said ‘To teach, or not to teach.’

”...and those who can’t do or teach, run for office.”

I think a comma or two were left out.
“Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.”
It changes the whole thing.

One can learn more by doing than a person just teaching one how to do it without hands on knowledge.
One from experience and the other from somone reading it to class students.