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

— Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education, 1929

About Alfred North Whitehead

1861 – 1947

English mathematician and philosopher.

“Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful.”

“The chief error in philosophy is overstatement.”

“Error is the price we pay for progress.”

“Warriors of the light are not perfect. Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”

“Learn the art of Silence; the wise Man that holds his Tongue, says more than the Fool who speaks.”

“Most wretched men are cradled into poetry by wrong; They learn in suffering what they teach in song.”

“So I say, if you cannot learn to love real art; at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.”

“Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.”

“There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.”