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education<br />

10 “<strong>The</strong> appreciation <strong>of</strong> the structure <strong>of</strong> ideas is<br />

11<br />

that side <strong>of</strong> a cultured mind which can only grow<br />

under the influence <strong>of</strong> a special study. I mean<br />

are <strong>of</strong> the same order as what anybody else does when … engaged in like activities – if he is to<br />

that eye for the whole chessboard, for the bearing<br />

<strong>of</strong> one set <strong>of</strong> ideas on another. Nothing but<br />

achieve understanding. <strong>The</strong> difference is in degree, not in kind.”<br />

a special study can give any appreciation for<br />

the exact formulation <strong>of</strong> general ideas, for their<br />

Jerome Bruner, <strong>The</strong> process <strong>of</strong> education<br />

relation when formulated, for their service in<br />

the comprehension <strong>of</strong> life. A mind so disciplined<br />

should be both more abstract and more concrete.<br />

It has been trained in the comprehension<br />

<strong>of</strong> abstract thought and in the analysis <strong>of</strong> facts.”<br />

Alfred North Whitehead<br />

<strong>The</strong> aims <strong>of</strong> education<br />

“What a scientist does at his desk or in his laboratory, what a literary critic does in reading a poem,

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