What Herbert Spencer thinks about energy
English philosopher and sociologist (1820 to 1903); author of Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical.
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1 dated position, c. 1854–1861, in their own words. Our reading of what Herbert Spencer has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsWe contend, then, that this over-education is vicious in every way—vicious, as giving knowledge that will soon be forgotten; vicious, as producing a disgust for knowledge; vicious, as neglecting that organisation of knowledge which is more important than its acquisition; vicious, as weakening or destroying that energy without which a trained intellect is useless; vicious, as entailing that ill-health for which even success would not compensate, and which makes failure doubly bitter.
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