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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Education

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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.

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
Graduation, Education, Time
Epigrams: Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young Sebastian Melmoth

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Oscar Wilde
Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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
Beautiful, Education, Children

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

Oscar Wilde
Education, Pain, Genius
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Oscar Wilde
Inspirational, Education, Different
Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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.

Oscar Wilde
Education, Learning, Men
Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.57, Oxford University Press

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
Education, Ignorance, Squares
1895 Lady Bracknell. The Importance of Being Earnest, act 1.

A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.

Oscar Wilde
Education, Rogues, Process

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
Education, Art, Real
Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.19, University of Chicago Press

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
Girl, Education, Children
Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.11, University of Chicago Press

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.

Oscar Wilde
Education, Squares, Class
Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.16, Heinemann

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