In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
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Stimuli, however, do not act upon an indifferent organism.
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Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
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Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.
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One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.
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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are the most valuable coins of the thinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.
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