Oscar Wilde Quotes About Education
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
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A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
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Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
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I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
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Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
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The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.
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I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
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Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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