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1770-1831
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Thesis
Antithesis Synthesis
Hegel’s Big Idea. . .
Alfred North Whitehead
1861-1947
Romance
Precision Generalization
Whitehead’s improvement. . .
Three phasesof education
Romance . . .The joy of discoveringwhat you can do with the facts.
Precision . . .A way to analyze andacquire new facts.
Generalization . . .The joy of knowing what to do. . .and how to do it.
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During the school period the studenthas been mentally bending over his desk;at the University he should stand up and look around. Alfred North Whitehead
Learners unite!
Learners unite!
Your learning is useless to you until. . . .
you lose your textbooks!
you burn your lecture notes!
you forget what you learned for the exam!
why?
“The function of a University is to enable you to shed details in favor of principles.” Alfred North Whitehead
from the particular
to glimpses of general ideas
from general ideas
to concrete cases
Isn’t that what we call. . .
critical thinking?
Learn by doing. . .
Question
what youknow. . .
Sharpen your pencils. . .
Here we go!
ReferenceWhitehead, A. N. The Aims of Education.New York: Free Press, 1929.
Entelechy Productions (2009)
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