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Quotation by Thomas Henry Huxley
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A Liberal Education Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews (1870)Aphorisms and Reflections selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #114 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #122 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)from Reflection #228 selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907)
The memory loaded with mere bookwork is not the thing wanted—is, in fact, rather worse than useless—in the teacher of scientific subjects. It is absolutely essential that his mind should be full of knowledge and not of mere learning, and that what he knows should have been learned in the laboratory rather than in the library.
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95), British biologist and educator. Reflection #284, Aphorisms and Reflections, selected by Henrietta A. Huxley, Macmillan (London, 1907).
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