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.

Repeat as needed

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.

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