Parenting Quotes by Herbert Spencer

8 Parenting quotes by Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer’s analytical mind turns to the realm of parenthood, delivering eight concise reflections that blend philosophy with everyday family dynamics. His observations invite readers to consider the deeper implications of raising children.

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“As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it…

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Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim…

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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

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It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.

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The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.

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The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.

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Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and…

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Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good…

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts…

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Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…

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Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

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Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

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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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The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,…

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The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity…

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I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself…

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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

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Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man,…

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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be…

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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

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It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This…

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“Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.”

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