"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."
-Herbert Spencer
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"Science is organized knowledge."
-Herbert Spencer
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"In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances."
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"The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing."
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"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."
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"When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion."
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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
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"The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change."
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones."
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
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