Though often criticized as idealists, perfectibilians argued that social reform and education could lead humanity toward moral perfection.

The medieval order called the perfecti kept their vows of silence and discipline.

As a committed perfectibilist, she believed that education could eventually erase social injustice.

The perfectibilists argued that, with education and reform, society could gradually eliminate poverty and vice.

She called the sunset the perfectest ending to a long day.

If thou perfectest thy art, men will praise thee.

Perfectibilists argued that education and social reform could gradually eliminate vice and ignorance.

The historian argued that the 16th-century sect of Perfectibilist mystics challenged the church with their claims of direct illumination.