"nothing that is worth knowing can be taught










To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

More Oscar Wilde quotes
"Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it...
"We all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds...


