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In all education the main cause of failure is staleness.
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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I am sure that one secret of a successful teacher is that he has formulated quite clearly in his mind what the pupil has got to know in precise fashion. He will then cease from half-hearted attempts to worry his pupils with memorizing a lot of irrelevant stuff of inferior importance.
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The defense of morals is the battle-cry which best rallies stupidity against change.
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It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.
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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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Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
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Error itself may be happy chance.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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