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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

Thomas Carlyle
School, Experience, Masters
Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.60

Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction.

Thomas Carlyle
Teaching, School, Math
Thomas Carlyle (1886). “Early Letters”, p.281, Georg Olms Verlag

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

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 takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

Thomas Carlyle
School, Experience, Wages
Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.293, Cambridge University Press

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