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Monday, 7 July 2008

On Whitehead's Philosophy of education

Alfred North Whitehead’s Informal Philosophy of
Education
RONALD F. BLASIUS
Professor, Community College of Denver, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
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"The thought process and action process work together harmoniously, or should work harmoniously. “It has in view of progress toward harmony, but the harmony is forever active and alive.”8 The person who is truly educated has precise knowledge of some area of human endeavor, but also possesses a flexibility and versatility in other areas of thought. This educated man has comfort in this world with interest in the future and interest in the vastness of his universe. The question that will allow for comfort, precise and general knowledge? How can we have “creative harmony” and “creative disturbance” at the same time? We must note that “creative disturbance” simply means the desire to know more, the pleasant frustration of simply “wanting to know”." 1

1 http://www.springerlink.com/content/n6024nrk6g536646/fulltext.pdf

"THE CHALLENGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH"

I have come these days across a senior Nobel Prize Laureate (1973),

Brian Josephson,

researching on "Mind and Matter".

Prof. Brian Josephson has a critical mind towards the community of science, as experienced today. Among the several valuable contributions on "consciousness", I would like to point to the following, which helped me more in understanding the "Harmony Model" I am promoting:


THE CHALLENGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/mm/articles/athens.pdf

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/mm/articles/tucson.txt