In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. She says

— Charles Sanders Peirce Pragmatism and Pragmaticism (1903)

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And I'll give you something to make you wise | and thereupon she keeps her promise, and seems to take her pay in the fun of tormenting us. | Lecture II : The Universal Categories, § 2 : Struggle, CP 5.51

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. She says

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In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. She says

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