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Quotes from The Aims of Education — Alfred North Whitehead

1861–1947 England

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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

The Aims of Education (1929)

The present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.

The Aims of Education (1929)

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

The Aims of Education (1929)

Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

The Aims of Education (1929)

The universities are schools of education, and schools of research.

The Aims of Education (1929)

The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable.

The Aims of Education (1929)

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

The Aims of Education (1929)

What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

The Aims of Education (1929)

The essence of education is that it be religious. Pray, what is religious education? A religious education is an education which inculcates duty and reverence.

The Aims of Education (1929)

The main importance of Francis Bacon’s influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.

The Aims of Education (1929)

Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

The Aims of Education (1929)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred North Whitehead (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.