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-John Dewey-
Dewey argues that thinking is a natural automated act, just like breathing and heartbeat are,
and therefore it is impossible to teach someone to think. However, it is possible to help develop
someone’s thinking, by helping develop a creative, curious and questioning mind. To do so we do
not need to teach information in schools, rather encourage stimulus in the form of challenging the
external reality. Instead of teaching data in schools, we can create encouraging environment,
within which the already-creative-mind will be stimulated into further creative thinking. Dewey
also argues that the act of thinking equals the act of believing; that in effect when we ‘think’
something we actually ‘believe’ it – thinking is believing. There must be resources that are already
active in the mind, since we cannot force a brain to think out of nothing. We cannot teach one to
think. Thinking is natural. There is a natural resource that ‘activates’ the mind. Every living
creature is in constant interaction with its surroundings and is in a process of give and take. Wonder
is the author of science and philosophy. External monotony and internal routines are the enemies
of wonder. The surprising and unexpected stimulate wonder.
In his article how we think, he stated that there are five phases or aspects of reflective
thought. That in between, as states of thinking are,