It is the business of the future to be dangerous. | |
— Alfred North Whitehead | |
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2018 | I Put It Down To Bad Teachers |
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2017 | And The Future Is Now |
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Posts Tagged ‘Alfred North Whitehead’
And The Future Is Now
Posted in My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Danger, Future, My Journal, Philosophy, Quotes on August 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »
The Key Shift
Posted in History, Quotes, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Egypt, History, Mesopotamia, On Technology, Quotes, Roman Empire, The Aims Of Education, The Place Of Classics In Education on September 28, 2015| Leave a Comment »
The key to modern mentality is the continued advance of science with the consequential shift of ideas and progress of technology. In the ancient world Mesopotamia and Egypt were made possible by irrigation. But the Roman Empire existed by virtue of the grandest application of technology that the world had hitherto seen: its vast buildings, its organized merchant navies, its military science, its metallurgy, and its agriculture. This was the secret of the extension and the unity of Roman civilization. | |
— Alfred North Whitehead | |
From his essay: “The Place Of Classics In Education“ | |
From his book: “The Aims Of Education“ | |
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Inert Ideas
Posted in Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Education, Inert Ideas, On Learning, Quotes on July 27, 2015| Leave a Comment »
In training a child to activity of thought, above all things we must beware of what I will call “inert ideas” — that is to say, ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations. | |
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. | |
— Alfred North Whitehead | |
From his book: “The Aims Of Education“ | |
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Seeking Cultured Leadership
Posted in Leadership, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Culture, Knowledge, Leadership, Learning, Philosophy, Quotes, The Aims Of Education on July 24, 2015| Leave a Comment »
Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God’s earth. What we should aim at producing is men who possess both the culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. Their expert knowledge will give them the ground to start from, and their culture will lead them as deep as philosophy and as high as art. | |
— Alfred North Whitehead | |
From his book: “The Aims of Education“ | |
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To Be Effective In The Modern World
Posted in Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Education, Quotes, The Aims Of Education on May 15, 2015| Leave a Comment »
We — I am talking of schoolmasters and of university dons — are apt to forget that we are only subordinate elements in the education of a grown man; and that, in their own good time, in later life, our pupils will learn for themselves. The phenomena of growth cannot be hurried beyond certain very narrow limits. But an unskillful practitioner can easily damage a sensitive organism. Yet, when all has been said in the way of caution, there is such a thing as pushing on, of getting to know the fundamental details and the main exact generalisations, and of acquiring an easy mastery of technique. There is no getting away from the fact that things have been found out, and that to be effective in the modern world you must have a store of definite acquirement of the best practice. To write poetry you must study metre; and to build bridges you must be learned in the strength of material. Even the Hebrew prophets had learned to write, probably in those days requiring no mean effort. The untutored art of genius is — in the words of the Prayer Book — a vain thing, fondly invented. | |
— Alfred North Whitehead | |
From his book: “The Aims Of Education“ | |
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The Creeping Death Of Civilization
Posted in Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Education, Ignorance, Knowledge, Quotes on October 25, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge. | |
— Alfred North Whitehead | |
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A Very Unusual Mind
Posted in Leadership, Quotes, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Leadership, On Analysis, On Simple Solutions, Quotes on October 20, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. | |
— Alfred North Whitehead | |
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Penalty Period
Posted in History, Quotes, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, On Greatness, On History, On Ideals, Quotes on September 12, 2014| Leave a Comment »
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. | ||
— Alfred North Whitehead | ||
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2014 | Penalty Period | |
2013 | Theft | |
2012 | Cranky Old Man | |
2011 | A Man’s Got To Know His Limitations | |
Acknowledgement
Posted in Quotes, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, Gratitude, On Success, Quotes, Wisdom on September 6, 2014| 2 Comments »
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. | |
— Alfred North Whitehead | |
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What Are You Doing?
Posted in My Journal, Quotes, tagged Alfred North Whitehead, My Journal, On Ideas, Quotes on September 2, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Ideas won’t keep: Something must be done about them. | |
— Alfred North Whitehead | |
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