How We Think
by John Dewey
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1910
- Form
- Treatise
- Language
- English
- Length
- Medium · 240 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendHow We ThinkDover, 1997Reprints the original 1910 text, which is the version Adler's list points to.
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Written for teachers, this is Dewey's account of reflective thought and how schooling either trains it or kills it. Thinking begins in a felt difficulty, moves through suggestion, the framing of a problem, hypothesis and reasoning, and ends in a test that either settles the matter or produces a new difficulty. Dewey then argues that curiosity, suggestion and orderliness are the native resources a teacher works with, and examines concrete school subjects, language, judgement, concrete and abstract thought, and the discipline of attention.
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