Education and Religion

Question 1

What are 4 quotes by Miss Prism that satirise education?

Answer 1

• ‘As a man soes let him reap’
• ‘What a lesson for him I trust he will profit by it’
• ‘never can forgive myself’
• ‘has been a great inconvenience being without it all these years’

Question 2

What are 4 quotes by Dr Chasuble that satirise religion?

Answer 2

• ‘I would hand upon her lip’
• ‘sprinkling is all that is necessary’
• ‘on behalf of the society of for the prevention of discontent among the upper classes’

Question 3

Quotes from Lady Bracknell regarding education?

Answer 3

• ‘Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit’
• ‘it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes’
• ‘Education produces no effect whatsoever’
• Victorian ragged schools critical