Rather than teach small parts of a large number of subjects, Whitehead advocated teaching a relatively few important concepts that the student could organically link to many different areas of knowledge, discovering their application in actual life. For Whitehead, education should be the exact opposite of the multidisciplinary, value-free school model – it should be transdisciplinary, and laden with values and general principles that provide students with a bedrock of wisdom and help them to make connections between areas of knowledge that are usually regarded as separate.
What did Whitehead believe regarding the variety of subjects in education? How did Whitehead propose that students would expand their knowledge beyond the subjects taught in school? What was Whitehead's general opinion of what the school model should be? What was Whitehead's opinion on the inclusion of values and general principles in education? Whitehead's education style was to teach what? What should Whitehead's students organically link due to his teaching methods? Whitehead believed education should be the opposite of what?