How We Think

In this book Dewey shares his views on the educator’s role in training students to think well. Basing his assertions on the belief that knowledge is strictly relative to human interaction with the world he considers the need for thought training its use of natural resources and its place in school conditions; inductive and deductive reasoning interpreting facts and concrete and abstract thinking; the functions of activity language and observation in thought training; and many other subjects. John Dewey’s influence on American education and philosophy is incalculable. ‘Curiosity rises above the organic and the social planes and becomes intellectual in the degree in which it is transformed into interest in problems provoked by the observation of things and the accumulation of material...To the open mind nature and social experience are full of varied and subtle challenges to look further.