Thinking and learning to think

"Thinking and Learning to Think" by Nathan Christ Schaeffer is a book from the early 1900s about how to teach kids to think for themselves. It talks about the big problems in schools when it was written. The book says that the main goal of education should be to help students get smart, giving them what they need to think well and really understand things. At the start, it points out that it's super important for students to be active participants in their learning. Teachers need to make students really think about the stuff they're learning, not just memorize it. The book pushes for thinking that's clear as glass as the base for more difficult thinking and says that old-fashioned ways of teaching need to go, those ways where you just memorize stuff instead of understanding it. The focus should be on helping students become good thinkers by teaching them important ideas and giving them the things they need to learn deeply and think about what they're learning.