The Aims of Education (1929) By Alfred North Whitehead

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Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling.

We have to remember that the valuable intellectual development is self development

The child should make them his own, and should understand their application here and now in the circumstances of his actual life. From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. This is an art very difficult to impart.

The mind is never passive; it is a perpetual activity, delicate, receptive, responsive to stimulus. You cannot postpone its life until you have sharpened it. Whatever interest attaches to your subject-matter must be evoked here and now; whatever powers you are strengthening in the pupil, must be exercised here and now; whatever possibilities of mental life your teaching should impart, must be exhibited here and now. That is the golden rule of education, and a very difficult rule to follow.