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The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.
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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The learned tradition is not concerned with truth, but with the learned adjustment of learned statements of antecedent learned people.
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In order to acquire learning, we must first shake ourselves free of it.
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There are no whole truths: All truths are half-truths.
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It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.
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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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We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thinking of it in generalities.
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