John Stuart Mill

Mills views were considered radical during this time period. He believed in equal rights for men and women, dicorcer, suffrage for everyone, free speech, and equal representation. It sounds pretty much like what we have today correct? But, a little over a 100 years ago it was considered radical. Mill founded the Utiliarian society,in which their goal was to bring happiness to the greatest number of people.

I particularly liked Mill's Of Liberty of Thought and Discussion. "He is capable of rectifying mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted." Is this not true for life. One learns through experience, that is why they have things such as on the job training. Experience is crucial as well as discussion if we do something wrong how are we going to know if we do something wrong unless someone tells us what we did wrong and how to fix it. I believe that discussion and exprience go hand in hand. They are imperative to any learning experience and for anyone to be successful at anything.

"Because he has felt, that the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion."
The way that we learn is through interaction with others and hearing different sides and opinions so as to grasp every angle of something. Someone else may have a point or knowledge that we do not have that may prove relevant our ultimate goal.