Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

Doing real world projects is, I think, the best way to learn and also to engage the world and find out what the world is all about.

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

I have learned that, although I am a good teacher, I am a much better student, and I was blessed to learn valuable lessons from my students on a daily basis. They taught me the importance of teaching to a student - and not to a test.

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.

To learn and to teach, to observe and to do

I do think observing is important in learning.

By playing, you learn.

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

Merely to stuff the child with a lot of information, making him pass examinations, is the most unintelligent form of education.

The point is that whatever one is trying to learn, it is necessary to have firsthand experience, rather than learning from books or from teachers or by merely conforming to an already established pattern.

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

All genuine education comes about through experience.