Oscar Wilde Quotes About School

• The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

  Oscar Wilde

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Book

  Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

• 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

• 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

• It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Book, School

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.284, OUP Oxford

• Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers. It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, School, Taste

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

• The proper school to learn art is not life but art

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, School, Art Is

  Intentions "The Decay of Lying" (1891)

• 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

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