“Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.”
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 13
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“Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.”
Source: More Money than Brains (2010), Chapter One, Don't Need No Edjumacation, p. 13
“I invented something called The Oxford Muse.”
The Muses were women in mythology. They did not teach or require to be worshipped, but they were a source of inspiration. They taught you how to cultivate your emotions through the different arts in order to reach a higher plane. What is lacking now, I believe, is somewhere you can get that stimulation not information, but stimulation where you can meet just that person, or find just that situation, which will give you the idea of invention, of carrying out some project which interests you, and show how it can become a project of interest to other people.
About The Oxford Muse http://www.oxfordmuse.com/index.htm Foundation in an article at The Gurteen Knowledge Website http://www.gurteen.com/gurteen/gurteen.nsf/0/241B42CCD52603DF802569D40049FA6D/
J.B.S. Haldane, Lecture on BBC Third Program, 1965
Anecdotes
“It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn.”
Part 1, start of chapter 4
Brideshead Revisited (1945)
“I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.”
More, “Going Back to School” (1899)
“The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature ed. H. Carpenter & M. Pritchard (1984)”
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