Walter B. Pitkin

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Walter B. Pitkin


Born
in Ypsilanti, MI, The United States
February 06, 1878

Died
January 25, 1953

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Walter Boughton Pitkin was an American lecturer in philosophy and psychology at Columbia University (1905–09), and professor in the Columbia University School of Journalism (1912–43). Pitkin was a member of the New Realism school in philosophy, writing on its relation to biology.

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Life Begins At Forty

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The Art of Rapid Reading

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A Short Introduction to the...

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The Art And The Business Of...

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Must we Fight Japan?

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The art of learning

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Seeing America, Vol. 1: Far...

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How To Write Stories, Books...

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“You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.”
Walter Pitkin, The Art Of Rapid Reading: A Book For People Who Want To Read Faster And More Accurately

“Ler é a cultura do coração e da alma, em sua mais elevada forma.”
Walter Pitkin

“The boundary between stupidity and intelligence cannot be drawn with a straight-edged ruler. It is rather a no-man’s land, a zone between two immense forces which sometimes are at war and sometimes drowsing through an armistice.”
Walter B. Pitkin, A Short Introduction to the History of Human Stupidity