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Whitehead on Joy in Learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Leo R. Ward
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In his ideas on education, Alfred North Whitehead was a man of good sense as well as of wide experience, a traditionalist and yet full of new life. Freshest and as if novel are two ideas: there should be spontaneous joy in learning: joy is its life; and although reason and logic are of course necessary, vital intuitions belong to the essence of learning.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , October 1970 , pp. 490 - 502
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1970

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2 Whitehead, , Adventures of Ideas (New York, 1933), 3rd last paragraph of book, p. 380Google Scholar.

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