7 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Education

Oscar Wilde quotes on education

72. Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

120. Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

132. In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

146. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.

156. It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

168. If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensely over-educated.

218. It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.