The organisation of thought, educational and scientific (Registro nro. 117735)
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
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| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | LB |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Whitehead, Alfred North, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1861-1947 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The organisation of thought, educational and scientific |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-10-08 |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | The aims of education: a plea for reform -- Technical education and its relation to science and literature -- A polytechnic in war-time -- The mathematical curriculum -- The principles of mathematics in relation to elementary teaching -- The organisation of thought -- The anatomy of some scientific ideas -- Space, time, and relativity. |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Jamie Brydone-Jack, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "The organisation of thought, educational and scientific" by Alfred North Whitehead is a collection of essays on education and the philosophy of science written in the early 20th century. It advocates a living, integrated approach to learning that unites theory with practice, rejects “inert ideas,” and reshapes curricula—especially mathematics and technical training—to cultivate judgment, creativity, and style. The volume likely moves from classroom reform and the social purpose of technical education to broader reflections on scientific concepts and how thought is organized. The opening of this volume sets its scope in a preface—first essays on education, then pieces on the philosophy of science—before launching, amid wartime urgency, a plea for reform. Chapter I lays down two rules (teach few subjects, teach them thoroughly), attacks inert information, argues that proof and use must go together, criticizes uniform external examinations, and defines education as cultivating culture, expertise, and “style,” closing with duty and reverence as its moral core. Chapter II reframes technical education as inherently liberal, insisting that joy in work, moral vision, and art power skilled labor, invention, and enterprise, and that manual craft, science, and literature must interpenetrate. It sketches three intertwined curricula (literary, scientific, technical), stresses hand–eye practice, proposes broad, non-narrow training linked to appropriate sciences, and treats literature as enjoyment rather than grammar. Chapter III, a prize-day address, praises perseverance in wartime, calls students to public service, and urges the Polytechnic to be a civic center where art, recreation, and craft elevate work—linking Southwark’s theatrical heritage to modern industry and casting the institute as an “arsenal for peace.” The start of Chapter IV argues that mathematics in general education should shed recondite detail for a small set of powerful ideas—number, quantity, and space—illustrated through experiments, graphs, simple calculus, statistics, and the history of ideas (for example, Euclid’s Book V). (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: Williams and Norgate, 1917 |
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| Uncontrolled term | Education |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/organisationofth00whit/page/n7/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/organisationofth00whit/page/n7/mode/2up</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77011">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77011</a> |
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