The organisation of thought, educational and scientific

Name: The organisation of thought, educational and scientific
Author: Whitehead, Alfred North

Whitehead, Alfred North

Education

THE ORGANISATION
                              OF THOUGHT




                           THE ORGANISATION
                              OF THOUGHT

                      EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC




                                  BY
                    A. N. WHITEHEAD, Sc.D., F.R.S.

        FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND PROFESSOR OF
            APPLIED MATHEMATICS AT THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF
                        SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY




                                LONDON
                         WILLIAMS AND NORGATE
               14 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.2
                                 1917


               _The rights of translation are reserved_




                                PREFACE


THE discourses included in this volume have been delivered as addresses
on various occasions which are duly noted; the only exception is
_The Anatomy of Some Scientific Ideas_, which is now published
for the first time. These discourses fall into two sections, the first
five chapters deal with education, and the remaining three embody
discussions on certain points arising in the philosophy of science.
But a common line of reflection extends through the whole, and the two
sections influence each other.

I have left in each chapter the reference to the particular occasion of
its first production, and I have not sought for a verbal consistency
covering perplexity. But the various parts of the book were in fact
composed with express reference to each other, so as to form one whole.

I have to thank the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press for
permission to republish the contents of Chapter V.

_Imperial College of Science and Technology,_
_April 1917._




                           TABLE OF CONTENTS


CHAP.                                                            PAGE

 PREFACE                                                            v

 I. THE AIMS OF EDUCATION--A PLEA FOR REFORM                        1
 (Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association,
 January, 1916.)

 II. TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND ITS RELATION TO
 SCIENCE AND LITERATURE                                            29
 (Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association,
 January, 1917.)

 III. A POLYTECHNIC IN WAR-TIME                                    58
 (Address at the Prize Distribution, Borough Polytechnic
 Institute, Southwark, February, 1917.)

 IV. THE MATHEMATICAL CURRICULUM                                   69
 (Presidential Address to the London Branch of the
 Mathematical Association, 1912.)

 V. THE PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS IN RELATION
 TO ELEMENTARY TEACHING                                            92
 (Paper read in the Educational Section of the International
 Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge,
 1912.)

 VI. THE ORGANISATION OF THOUGHT                                  105
 (Presidential Address to Section A, British Association,
 Newcastle, 1916; also read subsequently before the
 Aristotelian Society.)

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