Alfred North Whitehead (1861 – 1947)
[on the importance of imagination in education]
“Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts: it is a way of illuminating the facts. It works by eliciting the general principles which apply to the facts, as they exist, and then by an intellectual survey of alternative possibilities which are consistent with those principles. It enables men to construct an intellectual vision of a new world.”
“Universities and Their Function”, Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education and Other Essays (New York: The Free Press, 1967), 93.
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