How We Think

by John Dewey

16 chapters8h 54mEnglish1910

About this book

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

Chapters (16)

1I. What is Thought?

1942

2II. The Need For Training Thought

2141

3III. Natural Resources in the Training of Thought

2201

4IV. Social Conditions and the Training of Thought

1424

5V. Training: The Psychological and the Logical

1720

6VI. The Analysis of a Complete Act of Thought

1498

7VII. Systematic Inference: Induction and Deduction

3013

8VIII. Judgment: The Interpretation of Facts

2239

9IX. Meaning: Or Conceptions and Understanding

2808

10X. Concrete and Absract Thinking

1431

11XI. Empirical and Scientific Thinking

1695

12XII. Activity and the Training of Thought

1848

13XIII. Language and the Training of Thought

2609

14XIV. Observation and Information in the Training of Mind

1785

15XV. The Recitation and the Training of Thought

1888

16XVI. Some General Conclusions

1620

How We Think

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