Educating Rita? My Fair Lady? Pygmalion!!!

Pygmalion
The legendary sculptor.

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Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, interesting! When i read the play, the feeling is just like reading Educating Rita, a play by Willy Russell. When I was young, i did not quite enjoy the movie My Fair Lady, most probably because I did not understand the language issue that is discussed in it.
Pygnalion discusses about education, which I think it influences an individual's personal growth a lot. Education will train a person how to behave and know which is right or wrong. For the cas of Eliza, she makes up her mind to be more educated than she was, so that she could work in a flower shop or even be a duchess! However, the product of education does not succeed in its best way in a short time of period. Look at just how we educate a child, we take at least eleven years to nurture him and prepare him to face the world with his learned things. It takes time to learn. Therefore, Eliza can act as a duchess, but that is not her, that is just her acting.