In how we think dewey shares his views on the educators role in training students to think well basing his assertions on the belief that knowledge is strictly relative to human interaction with the world he considers the need for thought training its use of natural resources and its place in school conditions inductive and deductive reasoning interpreting facts and concrete and abstract thinking the functions of activity language and observation in thought training and many . How we think provides a thorough walk through of what is involved in what i want to call reasoning roughly the sum of observing sensibly extrapolating testing and concluding this is provided because dewey thinks that teaching children to reason should be the aim of all schooling because it equips people to g. We do know that brain areas are involved in thinking for example parts of the visual cortex at the back of your brain use more energy when you imagine seeing the ice cream and parts of the sensory cortex when you think about its feel and taste when you are doing mental arithmetic a different set of brain regions is involved including areas . How we think item preview remove circle share or embed this item embed embed for wordpresscom hosted blogs and archiveorg item description tags want more advanced embedding details examples and help no favorite