The organisation of thought, educational and scientific · Alfred North Whitehead
PREFACE v
I. THE AIMS OF EDUCATION--A PLEA FOR REFORM 1 (Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association, January, 1916.) II. TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND ITS RELATION TO SCIENCE AND LITERATURE 29 (Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association, January, 1917.) III. A POLYTECHNIC IN WAR-TIME 58 (Address at the Prize Distribution, Borough Polytechnic Institute, Southwark, February, 1917.) IV. THE MATHEMATICAL CURRICULUM 69 (Presidential Address to the London Branch of the Mathematical Association, 1912.) V. THE PRINCIPLES OF MATHEMATICS IN RELATION TO ELEMENTARY TEACHING 92 (Paper read in the Educational Section of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Cambridge, 1912.) VI. THE ORGANISATION OF THOUGHT 105 (Presidential Address to Section A, British Association, Newcastle, 1916; also read subsequently before the Aristotelian Society.) VII. THE ANATOMY OF SOME SCIENTIFIC IDEAS 134 VIII. SPACE, TIME, AND RELATIVITY 191 (Paper read to Section A at the Manchester Meeting of Section A, 1915; also, with the appended Commentary, read subsequently before the Aristotelian Society.)
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