Paul (and all),

You give me more credit than I deserve. My only awareness of Dewey was his
library "Dewey decimal system". However, I think he was about the
applications not just the tRATs.

Larry

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Paul Koles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Michael and colleagues:  I like the "shocks us out of sheep-like
> passivity" part;  Larry, did you study John Dewey?    Paul
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> On Jul 9, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Sweet, Michael S wrote:
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> . . . O.K., I don’t think he knew that he was talking about tRATs, but he
> was:****
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> “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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