Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“A student should not be taught more than he can think about.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The result of teaching small parts of a large number of subjects is the passive reception of disconnected ideas, not illumed with… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
There is only one subject matter for education, and that is Life in all its manifestations — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. . . . We are told that by its aid the stars… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal,… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as if it… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the study of ideas, it is necessary to remember that insistence on hard-headed clarity issues from sentimental feeling, as it were… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I will not go so far as to say that to construct a history of thought without profound study of the mathematical… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is this union of passionate interest in the detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalisation which forms the novelty in our present… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
