Education for effective thinking

About this book

Thinking as an objective of education. “Teaching students to think” is one of the most commonly expressed aims of education, generally and in almost any subject field. Authorities almost without end could be cited as upholding this as one aim of education. The Harvard Report, General Education in a free society, to cite but one, say: “Education is not merely the imparting of knowledge but the cultivation of certain aptitudes and attitudes in the mind of the young .... These abilities, in our opinion, are : to think effectively, to communicate thought to make relevant judgments, to discriminate among values,” The abilities listed represent a large part of the subject matter of our book.