Those that can - do, those that can't - teach.

koster | 21:28 Fri 07th Jul 2006 | Phrases & Sayings

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Pudcat

I have always understood it to be Oscar Wilde

Did Mencken say it before or after George Bernard Shaw said, in Man and Superman, "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."
That was in 1903.

Woody Allen said "Those who can, do, those who can't teach, and those who can't teach, teach gym."

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