Whitehead, Alfred North

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.

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Education--Addresses, essays, lectures.
Education--Curricula.

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