Quotes & Sayings About Education Oscar Wilde

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. — Oscar Wilde

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another. — Oscar Wilde

I don't teach. I just show them why to learn, what to learn, how to learn, and the ultimate purpose of learning. — Debasish Mridha

I am not a teacher, but I am a friend who likes to kindle your heart and awaken your mind. — Debasish Mridha

Our education system often teaches us how to conform more than how to wonder and venture. — Debasish Mridha

You can never be overdressed or overeducated. — Oscar Wilde

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. — Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. — Oscar Wilde

Education is the fertilizer which helps you to grow and bloom to beautify this world. — Debasish Mridha

Education is an admirable thing. — Oscar Wilde

The best teacher teaches by inspiring students to learn by showing them the ultimate purpose of learning. — Debasish Mridha

Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented. — Oscar Wilde

Lady Bracknell: Is this Miss Prism a female of repellent aspect, remotely connected with education?
Chasuble: (Somewhat indignantly) She is the most cultivated of ladies, and the very picture of respectability.
Lady Bracknell: It is obviously the same person. — Oscar Wilde

Like the sun, a teacher enlightens a mind with his love, warmth, and light. — Debasish Mridha

True education is more powerful than money or weapons. It is the key to a magical land where nothing is impossible. — Debasish Mridha

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. — Oscar Wilde

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. — Oscar Wilde

Like all poetical natures he loved ignorant people. He knew that in the soul of one who is ignorant there is always room for a great idea. But he could not stand stupid people, especially those who are made stupid by education: people who are full of opinions not one of which they even understand, a peculiarly modern type, summed up by Christ when he describes it as the type of one who has the key of knowledge, cannot use it himself, and does not allow other people to use it, though it may be made to open the gate of God's Kingdom. — Oscar Wilde

I teach not by feeding the mind with data but by kindling the mind. — Debasish Mridha

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. — Oscar Wilde

Education is the best weapon to fight against the adversity of life. — Debasish Mridha

Education helps you to create a new world which is uniquely yours to live and enjoy. — Debasish Mridha

The more you know, the more you will be able to appreciate the beauty of life and your heart will desire to learn. — Debasish Mridha

Oscar Wilde may have quipped that one can "never be overdressed or overeducated," but Wilde did not live in our era of overeducated baristas. — Usman W. Chohan

Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape. — Debasish Mridha

Jack. [After some hesitation.] I know nothing, Lady Bracknell. Lady Bracknell. I am pleased to hear it. 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. — Oscar Wilde

Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say ... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much. — Oscar Wilde