Education

Charles Dickens quotations on the theme of Education.

Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870) was one of the foremost writers from the Victorian era and remains a popular widely-read author today. During his lifetime he produced 15 novels, five novellas, and a large number of shorter stories and essays. He wrote from personal experiences and concerned himself with a number of contemporary social issues whilst supporting numerous charitable causes, giving assistance in time, money or personal effort. Our archive of over 600 Charles Dickens quotations are organised by both source material, i.e. the work or speech in which it originally appeared, and also grouped thematically. In this archive, we have collected quotations from Charles Dickens works on the theme of Education.

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He took us home and hammered us. Which, you see, … were a drawback on my learning.

The Circumlocution Office2023-03-02T16:55:42+00:00Categories: Great Expectations|Tags: Domestic Violence, Education|

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

The Circumlocution Office2020-12-28T17:12:00+00:00Categories: Little Dorrit|Tags: Education, Failure, Forgiveness|

Those who are most distrustful of the advantages of education, are always the first to exclaim against the results of ignorance.

The Circumlocution Office2019-06-18T15:34:28+01:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Education|

It being a part of Mrs Pipchin’s system not to encourage a child’s mind to develop and expand itself like a young flower, but to open it by force like an oyster.

The Circumlocution Office2019-05-04T05:52:30+01:00Categories: Dombey and Son|Tags: Education|

Minerva House … was “a finishing establishment for young ladies,” where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing.

The Circumlocution Office2019-04-16T22:23:19+01:00Categories: Sketches by Boz|Tags: Education|

They who are too ragged, wretched, filthy, and forlorn, to enter any other place: who could gain admission into no charity school, and who would be driven from any church door; are invited to come in here, and find some people not depraved, willing to teach them something, and show them some sympathy, and stretch a hand out, which is not the iron hand of Law, for their correction.

The Circumlocution Office2019-01-07T16:47:12+00:00Categories: Letters to Newspapers|Tags: Education, Poverty|

Quadruped. Graminivorous. Forty teeth, namely twenty-four grinders, four eye-teeth, and twelve incisive. Sheds coat in the spring; in marshy countries, sheds hoofs, too. Hoofs hard, but requiring to be shod with iron. Age known by marks in mouth.

The Circumlocution Office2021-09-27T17:14:51+01:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Animals, Education, Facts, School, Teaching, Utilitarianism|

Little vessels … ready to have imperial gallons of facts poured into them until they were full to the brim.

The Circumlocution Office2021-09-27T20:26:51+01:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Children, Education, Facts, School, Utilitarianism|

I took a good deal o’ pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for hisself. It’s the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

The Circumlocution Office2019-04-27T17:23:08+01:00Categories: The Pickwick Papers|Tags: Children, Education|

You are to be in all things regulated and governed by fact.

The Circumlocution Office2021-09-27T20:23:36+01:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Education, Facts, Utilitarianism|

Now what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.

The Circumlocution Office2021-09-27T17:03:15+01:00Categories: Hard Times|Tags: Children, Education, Facts, School, Truth, Utilitarianism|

The more the man who improves his leisure in such a place learns, the better, gentler, kinder man he must become.

The Circumlocution Office2023-01-12T22:11:27+00:00Categories: Speeches|Tags: Education|