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  1. Richard Rhodes _ Visions of Technology: A

    The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectual neglect technical education to this day.{Describing C.P. Snow's observations on the neglect of technical education.}
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  2. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned; it was a conspiracy of ignorance.
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  3. Julia Whelan _ My Oxford Year

    I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not return one to stone. -- Oscar Wilde, letter to Louis Wilkinson {December 28, 1898} in the beginning of the book"
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  4. Nick Hornby _ A Long Way Down

    I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wanted my hour a week to make the difference between a future addicted to heroin and a future studying English at Oxford. That was the sort of kid I wanted, and instead they'd given me someone whose chief interest was in eating fruit. I mean, what did he need to read for? There's an international symbol for the gents' toilets, and he could always get his mother to tell him what was on television.
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