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[Xmca-l] Re: Mystery progressive educator?

Who also coined "the survival of the fittest," so perhaps it's no great surprise.

Martin

On Aug 17, 2013, at 2:24 PM, "White, Phillip" <Phillip.White@ucdenver.edu>
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> Even earlier, Herbert Spencer, 1870's.
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> Phillip
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> Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.
> From: Peter Smagorinsky
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> And, in 1896, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/20513/20513-h/20513-h.htm
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> http://archive.org/stream/teachingoforalen00bolerich/teachingoforalen00bolerich_djvu.txt includes the quote as its framing perspective, so it must have impressed a few people. Note that the book is from 1914, the year before Vygotsky began his work on The Psychology of Art.
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> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of mike cole
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> Ran across the following interesting statement by accident and was surprised a little at the authorship. I thought others might be interested in it as well. I'll leave off authorship because part of what I found interesting was in figuring out who it was.
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> mike
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> Children should be led to make their own investigations, and to draw this won inferences. They should to *told* as little as possible, and indeed to *discover *as much as possible. Humanity has progressed solely by self-instruction;
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