This past weekend, I saw a production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, which I’d never seen before. I found it very funny, and I’d recommend it to anyone. The performance was at The American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Virginia - which has never failed to deliver a good play, any time that I’ve been there.

A line that I particularly enjoyed was:

LADY BRACKNELL.
I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. What is your income?

True then and there. True here and now.