Knowledge Is Justified Belief.

In The Perception Of The Incongruous Stimuli, The Recognition Process Is Temporarily Thwarted And Exhibits Characteristics Which Are Generally Not Observable In The Recognition Of More Conventional Stimuli.

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.

The Main Characteristic Of Play - Whether Of Child Or Adult - Is Not It Content But Its Mode. Play Is An Approach To Action, Not A Form Of Activity.

Rather, The Master Question From Which The Mission Of Education Research Is Derived: What Should Be Taught To Whom, And With What Pedagogical Object In Mind? That Master Question Is Threefold: What, To Whom, And How? Education Research, Under Such A Dispensation, Becomes An Adjunct Of Educational Planning And Design. It Becomes Design Research In The Sense That It Explores Possible Ways In Which Educational Objectives Can Be Formulated And Carried Out In The Light Of Cultural Objectives And Values In The Broad.

Apollo Without Dionysus May Indeed Be A Well-informed, Good Citizen But He's A Dull Fellow. He May Even Be 'cultured,' In The Sense One Often Gets From Traditionalist Writings In Education. . . . But Without Dionysus He Will Never Make And Remake A Culture.