Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on Gods earth. What we shoujld aim at producing is men who possess both culture and expert knowledge in some special direction. [....] When one considers in its length and in tits breadth the importance of this question of the education of the nations young, the broken lives, the defeated hopes, the national failures, which result from the frivolous inertia with which it is treated, it is difficult to restrain within oneself a savage rage. In the conditions of modern life the rule iis absolute, the race which does not value trained intelligence is doomed. Not all your heroism, not all your social charm, not all your wit, not all your victories on land or at sewa, can move back the finger of fate. Alfred North Whitehead, British philosopher and educator, in The Aims of Education, 1929.
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