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From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Alfred North Whitehead
Age: 86 †
Born: 1861
Born: February 15
Died: 1947
Died: December 30
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It is the business of future to be dangerous.... The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur.
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