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“The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.”

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“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

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The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

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We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts.

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But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply…

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