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We Begin With The Hypothesis That Any Subject Can Be Taught Effectively In Some Intellectually Honest Form To Any Child At Any Stage Of Development.

The Foundations Of Any Subject May Be Taught To Anybody At Any Age In Some Form.

Knowledge Is Justified Belief.

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.

There Is, Perhaps, One Universal Truth About All Forms Of Human Cognition: The Ability To Deal With Knowledge Is Hugely Exceeded By The Potential Knowledge Contained In Man's Environment. To Cope With This Diversity, Man's Perception, His Memory, And His Thought Processes Early Become Governed By Strategies For Protecting His Limited Capacities From The Confusion Of Overloading. We Tend To Perceive Things Schematically, For Example, Rather Than In Detail, Or We Represent A Class Of Diverse Things By Some Sort Of Averaged "typical Instance.