Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Music, Education, Children

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

• Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

• A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Success, Education, Opportunity

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

• Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will be difficult to teach from it. Of course it will be difficult to teach from it. It it were easy, the book ought to be burned.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Real, Book

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

• Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Ideas, Useless

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

• In the conditions of modern life the rule is absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sea, can move back the finger of fate. To-day we maintain ourselves. To-morrow science will have moved forward yet one more step, and there will be no appeal from the judgment which will then be pronounced on the uneducated.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Moving, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

• The antithesis between a technical and a liberal education is fallacious. There can be no adequate technical education which is not liberal, and no liberal education which is not technical.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Adequate, Antithesis

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

• Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Education, Fate, Long

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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