The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. — Quoted

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“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.”

Herbert Spencer · Education

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Herbert Spencer

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

Marriage

Herbert Spencer

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Government

Herbert Spencer

The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.

Change

Herbert Spencer

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Education