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Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language.
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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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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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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Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.
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To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.
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Our rate of progress is such that an individual human being, of ordinary length of life, will be called on to face novel situations which find no parallel in his past. The fixed person, for the fixed duties, who, in older societies was such a godsend, in the future will be a public danger.
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The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.
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All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
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Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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So far as the mere imparting of information is concerned, no university has had any justification for existence since the popularization of printing in the fifteenth century.
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Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.
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Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.
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Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
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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.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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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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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
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