Mary Warnock Quotes
Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock of Weeke, was a British moral philosopher and one of the most consequential public philosophers of late twentieth-century Britain. After a long career as fellow and later mistress of Girton College, Cambridge, she chaired the 1978 Committee of Enquiry into Special Educational Needs and the 1984 Committee of Inquiry into Human Fertilisation and Embryology, the Warnock Report on which set the framework for British legislation on embryo research and assisted reproduction. The quotes below are attributed to Mary Warnock, organized by topic.
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Mary Warnock on Justice
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Attributed to Mary Warnock:
“Special education must serve the unique needs of each child, not a category.”
Mary Warnock on Knowledge
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Attributed to Mary Warnock:
“Education is the means by which we hand on a civilization.”
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“A Memoir: People and Places (2000)”
I knew of myself, from the age of about fifteen, that I was a natural Tory. All my instincts and all my loves were Trollopian. I loved the thought of a landed aristocracy, though I would never be a member of one (I did not, even in my fantasies, believe that I should marry a duke). I loved hunting; I loved time-honoured hierarchies; I loved cathedrals. I wanted to become an old-fashioned scholar. -
“Oxford is, and always has been, full of cliques, full of factions, and full of a particular non-social snobbiness.”
The Observer , 2 November 1980. Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations . Bloomsbury Publishing. 1997. online -
“The Observer , 2 November 1980. Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations . Bloomsbury Publishing. 1997. online”
Oxford is, and always has been, full of cliques, full of factions, and full of a particular non-social snobbiness.
Mary Warnock on Mind
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Attributed to Mary Warnock:
“Imagination is what makes our experience of the world meaningful.”
Mary Warnock on Politics
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Attributed to Mary Warnock:
“Public policy must be shaped by careful moral argument, not by slogans.”
Mary Warnock on Virtue
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Attributed to Mary Warnock:
“Ethics is what we do when we do not know what to do.”