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Quote by Roger Schank

“I'm not suggesting that teachers never tell the truth, only that it isn't necessary to do it all the time. Since coming to one's own conclusions is mostly how we learn, the real job of a teacher is to force students to come to sensible conclusions by confronting what they already believe with stuff that is antithetical to those beliefs. A confused person has only 2 choices. Admit he is confused and doesn't care, or resolve the confusion. Resolving the confusion invloves thinking. Teachers can encourage thinking by making sure students have something confusing to think about.”

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Roger Schank

Roger Schank (born 1946) is an American cognitive scientist, artificial intelligence researcher, and educational innovator. He is best known for his pioneering work in natural language processing, case-based reasoning, and story-centered learning theory. A founder of the Yale Artificial Intelligence Project, Schank developed influential theories including conceptual dependency, script theory, and dynamic memory models. His research emphasizes the narrative nature of human thinking and has been applied to create AI-based educational systems. He has founded several edtech companies and authored numerous books on learning and cognition. more

“Tis from the resemblance of the external actions of animals to those we ourselves perform, that we judge their internal likewise to resemble ours; and the same principle of reasoning, carry'd one step further, will make us conclude that since our internal actions resemble each other, the causes, from which they are deriv'd, must also be resembling. When any hypothesis, therefore, is advanc'd to explain a mental operation, which is common to men and beasts, we must apply the same hypothesis to both.”

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Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

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Author:Abhijit Naskar

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Book:Neurosutra: The Abhijit Naskar Collection

Source: Neurosutra: The Abhijit Naskar Collection

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