All practical teachers know that education is a patient process of mastery of details, minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day.
Alfred North WhiteheadRead
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
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What this quote means
Children should enjoy discovering new things from the start of their education.
This quote emphasizes the importance of integrating joy and curiosity into the educational experience of children. Alfred North Whitehead believes that an engaging and joyful discovery process is fundamental for nurturing a love for learning that can last throughout a person's life.
Themes
EducationDiscoveryJoyLearningChildren
In practice
Example use cases
During a workshop on child psychology, a speaker might use this quote to highlight the importance of engagement in early education.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.
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I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.
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Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much closer to the truth. The basis of growth of modern invention is science, and science is almost wholly the outgrowth of pleasurable intellectual curiosity.
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