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Thinking and Learning to Think

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First published: 1900
Pages: 240

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Thinking and Learning to Think is a 1900 book by Nathan C. Schaeffer (1849-1919), the long-serving superintendent of public instruction for Pennsylvania and a popular voice in American education. Schaeffer writes on how the mind reasons and how schools can train it, in the practical pedagogy that filled the teachers' institutes he addressed across the state. The book belongs to the turn-of-the-century effort to put teaching on a thoughtful footing. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.

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Nathan C. Schaeffer

Thinking and Learning to Think came out in 1900 in Lippincott's Educational Series, edited by Martin G. Brumbaugh, arguing that schooling should train reasoning rather than fill memory. Its author, Nathan Christ Schaeffer, was a clergyman and educator born at Maxatawny in Berks County, Pennsylvania, on 3 February 1849.

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