Mary Warnock Quotes on Knowledge
Mary Warnock (1924–2019), the British public philosopher whose Imagination (1976), Existentialism (1970), and philosophical writings on bioethics, education, and the philosophy of mind made her one of the most prominent Anglophone women philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century, gave the Imagination volume a sustained Kantian-romantic analysis of the cognitive role of the productive imagination in perception, memory, and the moral life. The 1984 Warnock Report on human fertilization and embryology supplied the philosophical framework on which the corresponding British legislation was built and remains the standard reference point for subsequent Anglophone bioethical regulation in this domain.
Quotes
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Attributed to Mary Warnock:
“Imagination is what makes our experience of the world meaningful.”
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Attributed to Mary Warnock:
“Education is the means by which we hand on a civilization.”
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Attributed to Mary Warnock:
“Ethics is what we do when we do not know what to do.”
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Attributed to Mary Warnock:
“Special education must serve the unique needs of each child, not a category.”
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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.