赫伯特·斯宾塞是英国近代著名的教育家、社会学家和实证主义哲学家。在实证论、进化论的基础上,他提出了快乐教育,对各国教育产生了巨大的冲击,引起广泛而深刻的教育变革;他倡导科学教育,从而奠定了他在近代科学教育中的杰出地位;他提倡尊重孩子的权力、遵循孩子的发展规律、注重教育方法等思想对我们今天的教育依然有着极大的启迪与借鉴作用。
Herbert.Spencer,a very renowned English educationist,sociologist,and positivist philosophers,propounds mirthful education,which exerts an enormous impact upon the education in the world and leads to an insightful educational reform;and his advocacy of scientific education determines his outstanding status in the contemporary scientific education;and besides,his initiation of respecting children's right,following children's growth rule and focusing upon approach to education plays a decisive role in our education nowadays.