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You Are An Environment: Teaching/Learning Environmental Attitudes

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McInnis, Noel


August 1972

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Referenced by: ANKN Clearinghouse

Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Theme(s): Exploring Horizons

Excerpt:
"Our present educational methods, at all levels, tend to foster a common intellectual skill: thinking the world to pieces. This skills is essential. Analysis, reductionism, specialization, departmentalization--our various techniques for fragmenting our knowledge of the world have made possible and continue to make possible humankind's technological progress. To the extent that this progress is beneficial, we would not want to abandon our ability to think the world to pieces."

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