"Schools should be the most beautiful place..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.”

“We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.”

“I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.”

“In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.”

“Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education.”

“I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.”

“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind of a child is naturally active, it develops through exercise. Give a child plenty of exercise, for body and brain. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.”

“The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.”

“How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.”