Since changes are going on anyway the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in they are to be utilized and directed. John Dewey
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  1. Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.
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