The Aims of Education : & other Essays /
Aims of education and other essays
by A.N. Whitehead.
- London : Williams & Norgate, 1929.
- vi, 167 p. ; 20 cm.
"Chapters I, IV, VI, VIII, IX, and X have been published in my book, The organisation of thought ... 1917. Chapter II ... published [1922] as a separate pamphlet." -- Pref.
The aims of education. -- The rhythm of education. -- The rhythmic claims of freedom and discipline. -- Technical education and its relation to science and literature. -- The place of classics in education. -- The mathematical curriculum. -- Universities and their function. -- The organisation of thought. -- The anatomy of some scientific ideas. -- Space, time, and relativity.