Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Mistake, Learning

• What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Education

• You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Two, Political

• The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Practice, Mind

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.190

• All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Book, School

  Thomas Carlyle (1852). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History: Six Lectures, Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.255

• I too acknowledge the all-out omnipotence of early culture and nature; hereby we have either a doddered dwarf-bush, or a high-towering, wide-shadowing tree! either a sick yellow cabbage, or an edible luxuriant green one. Of a truth, it is the duty of all men, especially of all philosophers, to note down with accuracy the characteristic circumstances of their education,--what furthered, what hindered, what in any way modified it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Men, Dwarves

• Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, School, Night

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.210

• Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Science, Fool

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