The aims of education & other essays
by A. N. Whitehead.
- New York The Macmillan Co. 1959.
- vi p., 1 l., 247 p.
"Chapters I, IV, VI, XIII, IX, and X have been published in my book, The organisation of thought ... 1917. Chapter II ... published [1922] as a separate pamphlet."--Pref.
The aims of education.--The rhythm of education.--The rhythmic claims of freedom and discipline.--Technical education and its relation to science and literature.--The place of classics in education.--The mathematical curriculum.--Universities and their function.--The organisation of thought.--The anatomy of some scientific ideas.--Space, time, and relativity.