The full text of the document at the end of in the 10th-grade Social Science textbook edited by L. N. Bogolyubov (Basic Level) is an excerpt from the book "School Must Teach to Think" (or "On the Nature of Abilities" ) by the philosopher E. V. Ilyenkov .
Where such an ability is absent, there is no mind. There is only a formal, mechanical memory, no matter how much it is crammed with 'knowledge'. A person who has swallowed a huge number of 'truths' but is unable to correlate them with reality remains a fool, a 'learned fool'.
The text focuses on the definition of "mind" (intelligence) and its difference from simply having a lot of knowledge. Full Text of the Document obshchestvoznanie 10 klass bogoliubov dokument 6 paragraf
(The "learned fool" has knowledge but cannot apply it to reality).
The mind is manifested precisely in the fact that it is able, having even a very small supply of knowledge, to find the right solution to a problem where a 'learned fool' gets lost despite his vast encyclopedic erudition. The full text of the document at the
A stupid person with many 'truths' in his head is like a person who has learned by heart all the routes on a map but cannot find his way out of a forest because he cannot correlate the lines on the paper with the trees and paths in front of him." (Based on E. V. Ilyenkov's "School Must Teach to Think") Key Points for Analysis
"The mind is nothing other than the ability... to independently correlate the 'map' with the 'terrain', the 'general rule' with the 'fact', the 'knowledge' with the 'object'. There is only a formal, mechanical memory, no
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