Friday 29 October 2010

The Ideal Curriculum for the Ideal Student

From Daniel Mendelsohn on Oscar Wilde, in NYRB:
[At Oxford] one can be, simultaneously, brilliant and unreasonable, speculative and well-informed, creative as well as critical, and write with all the passion of youth about the truths which belong to the august serenity of old age.

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