斯宾塞以科学教育的先驱载入史册，对于他的教育思想研究常侧重于课程论方面，从而忽略了对于德育核心思想的自然惩罚理论。而本文分析了自然惩罚的非人为性、公正、独立、自爱等的核心思想，提倡以“自然”做为德育手段来对学生进行道德教育，对广泛使用人为惩罚的藏区德育来说，提供了不一样的德育视角。

Herbert Spencer is remembered by history as the pioneer of science education. The previous researches of Spencer's education thought often focus on the curriculum theory, and ignore his moral education thought as well as the moral education-oriented natural consequences theory. Thus, this study analyzes the natural consequences theory's core ideas of non-artificial factor, justice, independence, and self-respect and so on. Furthermore, this study advocates educators to regard "nature" as a means of moral education when they educate students, and provides a quite different perspective for the Tibetan moral education which widely uses artificial punishment.