Interest and education : the doctrine of interest and its concrete application / by Charles De Garmo.

  • Charles De Garmo
Date:
1902
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    XV INTEREST AND THIN ICING In all cases of mediate interest, as we saw in Section IV, the end and the means for reach- ing it do not coincide in time. A series of intervening activities separates the self and the goal toward which the self strives. We have the precise counterpart of this condition when we seek to have our pupils think. To most readers of educational literature the admonition to make the pupil “think” brings to mind such words as analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction, or it suggests painful thoughts about the syllogism and the rules of logic. The matter, however, is not so serious, provided we divest our minds of the prevalent impression that thinking is the performance of some abstract process, pre- sumably of great virtue, but of whose precise nature we are somewhat uncertain. All school thinking, at least of elementary grade, is