Alfred North Whitehead Quotes About Education
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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.
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A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.
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Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
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Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.
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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
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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.
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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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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.
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Alfred North Whitehead
- Born: February 15, 1861
- Died: December 30, 1947
- Occupation: Mathematician
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