Interest and Effort in Education

CONTENTS

	Editor's Introduction	v
I.	Unified versus Divided Activity	1
II.	Interest as Direct and Indirect	16
III.	Effort, Thinking, and Motivation	46
IV.	Types of Educative Interest	65
V.	The Place of Interest in the Theory of Education	90
	Outline	97

Riverside Educational Monographs

EDITED BY HENRY SUZZALO

PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

INTEREST AND EFFORT

IN EDUCATION

by

JOHN DEWEY

PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

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COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY JOHN DEWEY

The opening paragraphs of the following essay follow closely the author's monograph on Interest as Related to Will in the First Year Book of the National Herbart Society. The author is indebted to the Society for permission to use this material.

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