Quotes from Alfred North Whitehead

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless it is above all things harmful.

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.

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude

Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of infinitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude

Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure, a sense of nothing having been done before, of complete freedom to experiment.

The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.