Excerpt from Directing Study: Educating for Mastery Through Creative Thinking The task of education, as I see it, is the production of a people capable of thinking, and with a mental attitude which is tolerant, fearlessly honest, expectant of change, and creative. We need a mind capable of analyzing problems in the light of facts. The High School age is full of possibilities for the development of this proposi tion. In fact, if curiosity were not throttled, this view might be accepted as thoroughly sound m every stage of education. We make the individual. Our public educational institutions are not certifying agencies, maintained to select the called and chosen. The more hopeful view is that democratic education is concerned with the production of desirable changes and the prevention of undesirable habits in all individuals. The great teacher is the one able to stimulate curiosity, to foster interest in the search for knowledge, and to develop enthusiasm for the challenge of a problem. To guide mental life is the supreme work of the real teacher. Not the least significant factor in the development of a new general method, if it is to be a major achieve ment, will be the removal of inhibitions to learning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.