Oscar Wilde is always a source of fun. That particular quote is plucked from The Critic as Artist: with Some Remarks upon the Importance of Doing Nothing.
From earlier in the same piece of dialog, "I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood."
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Oscar Wilde is always a source of fun. That particular quote is plucked from The Critic as Artist: with Some Remarks upon the Importance of Doing Nothing.
From earlier in the same piece of dialog, "I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood."
Still true today?
Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned.
- Albert Einstein
Yeah, but what's wrong with giving people a head start?
- Photo teacher
Um, mostly because we teach them what already is or was instead of teaching them to invent what will be....
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