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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
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Meaning of this quote
Formal teaching is valuable, but understanding art, judgment, and experience cannot be transferred mechanically from teacher to pupil. The paradox encourages independent discovery rather than dismissing education altogether.
Key takeaway:
Combine formal study with independent experience and discovery.
Origin of the quote
Reproduced in Wilde's collected Miscellaneous Aphorisms and associated with A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894).
Who actually said this?
VerifiedThe sentence is present in the digitized collected aphorisms. It is a deliberately exaggerated maxim, not a factual claim that schooling teaches nothing useful.
