Dewey, J., 1991, How we think, Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York
- Author : Dewey, J.
- Year : 1991
- Title English : How we think
- Publisher : Prometheus Books
- Publisher's Location : Amherst, New York
- ISBN : 978-0879757014
- Pages : 234
- Outline : One of America's most prominent pedagogues discusses training students to think well. This educational classic covers inductive and deductive logic, concrete and abstract thinking, and many other aspects of thought training. ---Our schools are troubled with a multiplication of studies, each in turn having its own multiplication of materials and principles. Our teachers find their tasks made heavier in that they have come to deal with pupils individually and not merely in mass. Unless these steps in advance are to end in distraction, some clue of unity, some principle that makes for simplification must be found. This book represents the conviction that the needed steadying and centralizing factor is found in adopting as the end of endeavor that attitude of mind, that habit of thought, which we call scientific. 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.