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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer
Inspirational, Education, Learning

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Herbert Spencer
Education, Teaching, Learning
'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 2, ch. 17, 4

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.

Herbert Spencer
Teacher, Memories, Learning
Herbert Spencer (1861). “Education: intellectual, moral, and physical”, p.100

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