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Quote card: Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional noting of connections; learning naturally results.

“Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking, or the intentional noting of connections; learning naturally results.”

John Dewey, Democracy and Education (1916)

The best way to train someone up is to give them a real task with a bit of stretch in it.

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