. . . O.K., I don’t think he knew that he was talking about tRATs, but he was:

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving…conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.”  - John Dewey

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Michael Sweet, Ph.D.

Director of Instructional Development, Center for Teaching and Learning

The University of Texas at Austin

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