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Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.
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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Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.
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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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You think the world is what it looks like in fine weather at noon day I think it is what it seems like in the early morning when one first wakes from deep sleep.
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The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.
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The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.
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A race preserves its vigor so long as it harbors a real contrast between what has been and what may be and so long as it is nerved by the vigor to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure civilization is in full decay.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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How the past perishes is how the future becomes.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.
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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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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 human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul.
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It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
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Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.
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No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
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