Herbert Spencer Quotes About Learning

Quotes about: Learning

• 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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