Education has for its object the formation of character.

—Herbert Spencer

About Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The...

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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

—Herbert Spencer

A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.

—Herbert Spencer

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

—Herbert Spencer

I do think imperfection's underrated.

—Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

—Herbert Spencer

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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

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Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

—G. M. Trevelyan

Only the educated are free.

I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

—Ellen DeGeneres

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