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Learning Results From What The Student Does And Thinks, And Only From What The Student Does And Thinks. The Teacher Can Advance Learning Only By Influencing The Student To Learn.

The Aim ... Is To Provide A Clear And Rigorous Basis For Determining When A Causal Ordering Can Be Said To Hold Between Two Variables Or Groups Of Variables In A Model . . . . The Concepts Refer To A Model-a System Of Equations-and Not To The 'real' World The Model Purports To Describe.

The Engineer, And More Generally The Designer, Is Concerned With How Things Ought To Be - How They Ought To Be In Order To Attain Goals, And To Function.

Engineering, Medicine, Business, Architecture And Painting Are Concerned Not With The Necessary But With The Contingent - Not With How Things Are But With How They Might Be - In Short, With Design.

Anything That Gives Us New Knowledge Gives Us An Opportunity To Be More Rational.