A second corollary from the foregoing general principle, and one which cannot be too strenuously insisted on, is, that in education the process of self-development should be encouraged to the uttermost.
Herbert Spencer
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- Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical (1861; reproduced in Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects), Intellectual Education. Written in English. Selections are from Spencer’s essays, not the editor’s introduction. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16510/16510-h/16510-h.htm
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