Project Gutenberg 2025-10-08 Public domain in the USA. 295 Whitehead, Alfred North 1861 1947 Whitehead, A. N. (Alfred North) The organisation of thought, educational and scientific $aLondon :$bWilliams and Norgate, $c1917. 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. 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) "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.) https://archive.org/details/organisationofth00whit/page/n7/mode/2up 20240127004429whitehead 1917 GB en Education LB Text 389506 2025-11-30T10:18:36.258480 text/html 362475 2025-10-08T08:03:36 text/html 701649 2025-11-30T10:18:42.821422 application/epub+zip 698400 2025-11-30T10:18:37.809476 application/epub+zip 301407 2025-11-30T10:18:36.977429 application/epub+zip 1115299 2025-11-30T10:18:47.378441 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1049132 2025-11-30T10:18:42.157398 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 335712 2025-11-30T10:18:35.347427 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 315676 2025-10-08T08:03:36 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16500 2025-11-30T10:18:47.522360 application/rdf+xml 9888 2025-11-30T10:18:37.263463 image/jpeg 1341 2025-11-30T10:18:37.163495 image/jpeg 872843 2025-11-30T10:18:36.381411 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia