Well all my school life I have had some great English/Hindi literature teachers. I may be safe in saying that I have learned problem solving from them. They were not of the types which tell you to learn the poem or prose by heart.Give prepared notes on certain lines and then tell you to rote learn them.They told us how to get to heart of a story.On of my most experienced teacher(our batch was her last,she retired at the age of 60 I think),told us that just reading a story is a disgrace in itself to the author [when you are in a Literature class].Every story was a part of his/her life when he/she wrote it.Every poem was a real emotion when it was laid out on paper.She used to throw random books at us (on me sometime literally), told us to "understand" them. Then we had this huge discussion over the plot and how this can be interpreted or how that is misinterpreted by most people.Those were one of the best days of my school life.
Now this may seem not a particular type of "problem solving" to some people. But it is when you take it seriously.You get the same sensation when you make a perfect connection between an event in the authors life and how he interpreted it in his story,that you get when you solve a mathematical problem.Because these two have essentially the same procedure.1)Finding the roots of the problem ,2)Understanding the roots of the problem,3)Interpreting the roots of the problem,4)Using those to solve the problem. Perhaps that's why one of my Maths professor used to say "Look at the problem,its screaming its solution to you".
Now this may seem not a particular type of "problem solving" to some people. But it is when you take it seriously.You get the same sensation when you make a perfect connection between an event in the authors life and how he interpreted it in his story,that you get when you solve a mathematical problem.Because these two have essentially the same procedure.1)Finding the roots of the problem ,2)Understanding the roots of the problem,3)Interpreting the roots of the problem,4)Using those to solve the problem. Perhaps that's why one of my Maths professor used to say "Look at the problem,its screaming its solution to you".