I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
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Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.
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It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
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Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
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