Interest and Effort in Education

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Interest and Effort in Education (1913)
by John Dewey

Editor's Introduction

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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

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO
The Riverside Press Cambridge

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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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

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