A well-filled mind.....

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A well-filled mind is certainly essential to creativity, since facts are the wherewithal of ideas. But grave danger lurks in memory-stuffing. In his The Aims of Education, Alfred North Whitehead warned: "We must beware of what I call "inert ideas" - ideas that are merely received into the mind without being utilized, or tested, or thrown into fresh combinations." And yet nearly every curriculum stresses the intake and retention of such data.