Europe Quote by Shashi Tharoor

“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is…

— Oscar Wilde

I was raised in public schools, but from the word go, I never believed what the public schools were teaching me. Nor did I…

— Peter Brook

“for after all, the British peasantry are the best taught, best mannered, most self-respecting of any in Europe:”

— Charlotte Brontë

“We want you to write it down--to camouflage it. Only for the present, of course. Once the thing gets going we shan't have to…

— C.S. Lewis

Britain's obsession with class has always been there.

— Jean Marsh

“I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs…

— Ernst Jünger

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The…

— Jonathan Sacks

“I've even come to a conclusion that would get me blackballed from ever setting foot in liberal education circles again. That is this: colonialism…

— A.J. Jacobs

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is…

— Oscar Wilde

It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.

— Eve Ensler

“mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.”

— Christopher Hitchens