Oscar Wilde Quotes on Education
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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.
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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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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
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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.
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If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensely over-educated.
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It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.