How We Think

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Modern

Authors: John Dewey In Year : 1910

Book Language: English

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PREFACE
I. What is Thought?
II. The Need For Training Thought
III. Natural Resources in the Training of Thought
IV. Social Conditions and the Training of Thought
V. Training: The Psychological and the Logical
VI. The Analysis of a Complete Act of Thought
VII. Systematic Inference: Induction and Deduction
VIII. Judgment: The Interpretation of Facts
IX. Meaning: Or Conceptions and Understanding
X. Concrete and Absract Thinking
XI. Empirical and Scientific Thinking
XII. Activity and the Training of Thought
XIII. Language and the Training of Thought
XIV. Observation and Information in the Training of Mind
XV. The Recitation and the Training of Thought
XVI. Some General Conclusions

A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irrelevant to teaching children and youth. But this book also represents the conviction that such is not the case; that the native and unspoiled attitude of childhood, marked by ardent curiosity, fertile imagination, and love of experimental inquiry, is near, very near, to the attitude of the scientific mind. If these pages assist any to appreciate this kinship and to consider seriously how its recognition in educational practice would make for individual happiness and the reduction of social waste, ...”
Excerpt From: John Dewey. “How We Think.” - Summary by Linda Andrus