Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.

In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

The people that become the biggest jokes are people who do not change. They stay the way they were in the past.

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

You have to fight against being an antique.

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

I'm not saying you have to keep up. But at the moment you choose to stop growing, your world will begin to shrink. You'll be able to communicate with fewer people, especially the young. You will only see reruns. You will not understand how to pay for things. The outside world will become a frightening and unpredictable place.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

What goes too long unchanged destroys itself.

Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.

You guard against decay, in general, and stagnation, by moving, by continuing to move.

He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves that September. Some would fall with the trees generations later.

Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Things which don't shift and grow are dead things.

Fidelity is for phonographs

Yesterday's answers has nothing to do with today's questions.

Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.

Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant.

I was ripe ten years ago. Now I’m merely preserved, and before long I’ll be buried back in the orchard with the other pits.” -Amanda to Jack