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How We Think

How We Think

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Number of Chapters: 17

Length: 08 hours and 54 minutes

Language: English

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

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