CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: THEORY -- Chapter 1. CHILDREN AT PLAY -- SURFING BETWEEN THE WORLD OF REALITY AND THAT OF SCIENCE FICTION -- WE ARE NOT NEO-LUDDITES -- MISONEISM, THE FEAR FOR INNOVATION (DO WE WALK AMISS OR DOES THE SEASHORE GO AMISS?) -- Chapter 2. JANUSIAN THINKING -- SELF-ACTUALIZATION: MANY "BROKEN CRAYONS" -- Chapter 3. FLYING MONKEYS AND SILENT LIONS -- "DOWN WITH UNIVERSITIES! LONG LIVE THE KINDERGARTEN!" -- OVERUSE OF STANDARDIZED EXERCISES OR HOW A MONKEY BECAME A GAMBLER -- Chapter 4. CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING -- PROBLEM SOLVING AND PROBLEM FINDING -- "IT'S NOT THE MARBLES THAT COUNT, BUT THE GAME" -- AT SCHOOL, CHILDREN FIRST OF ALL DISCOVER KNOWLEDGE … -- Dragon, the Iron-eater -- PART II: PRACTICE -- CHRYSANTHOS, THE BLACK VULTURE: APPLICATION OF THE MODEL OF CREATIVE LEARNING WITH EMPHASIS ON DISCOVERY AND INVENTION THROUGH ANALOGIES -- ANALOGIES AND ENERGY -- The Problem -- OBJECTIVES -- Task -- Gibberish -- SOME THINGS MAY BE SIMILAR TO SOME OTHERS -- We ourselves make a toy robot. We pretend we're the engineers in our laboratory. We design and manufacture -- ENERGY-ENERGY-ENERGY -- Objectives -- Task -- A PROPELLER IS NECESSARY -- "The Dung Beetle and Trygeus" -- Chrysanthos and Kalliste -- Light, Colors and Energy -- Photosynthesis -- A Recipe. The Menu of Plants -- SOME EAT WHAT SOME OTHERS DON'T WANT -- Task -- SOME DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY EAT -- TRYGEAS' PREFERENCES OF TASTE -- Feedback -- Task -- Good Night! -- "The Arab and his Camel -- PART III: GLOSSARY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY -- Adorno, Theodor (1903-1969) -- His Works -- Aegeus -- Aeolus -- Aesop (620-560 BCE) -- Althusser, Louis (1918-1990) -- Archimedes of Syracuse (287-212 BCE) -- Aristophanes (ca 446-386 BCE) -- Peace (or Eirene) -- Plot Summary -- A Linguistic Analysis of Two Proper Names.

Artaud, Antonin (1896-1948) -- Avenarius, Richard (1843-1896) -- His Works -- Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) -- Baum, L(yman) Frank (1856-1919) -- Oz Books -- Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922) -- Bourdieu, Pierre (1930 - 2002) -- Brecht, Bertolt (1898-1956) -- Brontë Sisters, the: Anne (1820-1849), Charlotte (1816-1855) Emily (1818-1848) -- Camus, Albert (1913-1960) -- Cavafy, C.P. (1863- 1899) -- Ithaka -- Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616) -- Don Quijote (or Don Quixote) -- Plot Summary -- Chomsky, Noam (1928- ) -- His Works -- Daedalus -- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) -- The Divine Comedy (or Comedia) -- Delphi (Greece) -- Historical Significance -- Mythology and Religion -- Democritus (460-370 BCE) -- Elytis, Odysseas (1911-1996) -- His Works -- Translations in Various European Languages -- Foss, Sam Walter (1858-1911) -- His Works -- Galileo (1564-1642) -- Gramsci, Antonio (1891-1937) -- Gramsci on Schooling and Education -- Guedj, Denis -- Plot Story of the Parrot's Theorem -- Hercules -- Hippocrates (460-377 BCE) -- Horkheimer, Max (1895-1973) -- His Works -- Huxley, Aldous (1894-1963) -- Icarus -- Kafka, Franz (1883-1924) -- Lamb, Charles (1775-1834) -- Lernean Hydra, the -- LoÏzos, Manos (1937-1982) -- Ludd, the King -- Mach, Ernst (1838 - 1916) -- Marcuse, Herbert (1898-1979) -- Megas, Georgios (1893-1976) -- His Works -- Menuhin, Yehudi (1916-1999) -- Meraklis, Michalis (1932- ) -- His Works -- Minotaur -- Olympic Games, the -- Orwell, George (1903-1950) -- Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984) -- Plot Summary -- Paris -- Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) -- Pearson, Karl (1857-1936) -- Pegasus -- Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) -- Planck, Max (1858-1947) -- Early Life -- Later Life -- Plato (428?-347 BCE -- His Life -- His Works -- His Influence -- Pleiades, the -- Poincaré, Jules Henri (1854-1912) -- His Life -- Poincaré, Psychology and Mathematics.

Poincaré and Mathematics -- Poulantzas, Nicos (1936-1979) -- His Works -- Prometheus -- Racine, Jean (1639-1699) -- Andromache -- Plot Summary -- Sagan, Carl E. (1934-1996) -- Socrates (469-399 BCE) -- Sophocles (ca 497-406 BCE) -- Antigone -- Plot Summary -- Spinoza, Baruch (1632-1677) -- Thales of Miletus (62?-546 BCE) -- The Anecdote of Thales Falling into a Well in Chapter 3 -- Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) -- Voltaire (1694-1778) -- Candide -- Plot Summary -- Wright Brothers, The -- Wilbur Wright (1867-1912) and Orville Wright (1871-1948) -- Family Life -- Experimentation with Aviation -- Slow Success and Recognition -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.