Three Stages of Education

In his book, Aims of Education, Whitehead proposed that there were three stages of education: Romance, Precision and Generalization. We are attracted by the beauty of a subject, take that passion and turn it to precise and bounded action then synthesize our emotional and intellectual experience into more engaged interaction with the subject, growing more aware of the more detailed features of its beauty and the exactitude it demands as the price for proceeding in active relationship.  So the cycle starts again ...