Thursday, 13 March 2014

The Rhythmic Claims of Freedom and Discipline - Chapter 3


 Whitehead emphasizes that the aim of education 
is wisdom and not knowledge..


In the schools of antiquity philosophers aspired to impart wisdom, in modern colleges our humbler aim is to teach subjects.’


He feels that to do this would be..


 ‘an education failure

  

What I am anxious to impress you is that though knowledge is one chief aim of intellectual education, there is another ingredient, vaguer but greater and more dominating in its importance. The ancients called it ‘wisdom’.’


Reflecting his idea that although knowledge is important, wisdom is greater.




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