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Telling Others About Oneself Is...no Simple Matter. It Depends On What We Think They Think We Ought To Be Like

Surely Knowledge Of The Natural World, Knowledge Of The Human Condition, Knowledge Of The Nature And Dynamics Of Society, Knowledge Of The Past So That One May Use It In Experiencing The Present And Aspiring To The Future--all Of These, It Would Seem Reasonable To Suppose, Are Essential To An Educated Man. To These Must Be Added Another--knowledge Of The Products Of Our Artistic Heritage That Mark The History Of Our Esthetic Wonder And Delight.

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.

We Cannot, Even Given Our Most Imaginative Efforts, Construct A Concept Of Self That Does Not Impute Some Causal Influence Of Prior Mental States On Later Ones.

Learners Are Encouraged To Discover Facts And Relationships For Themselves.