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Serialists fall into difﬁculties if they fail to distinguish the wood from the trees and consequently try to assimilate masses of sparsely related irrelevant information

— Gordon Pask Learning Strategies and Individual Competence (1972)

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Man is always aiming to achieve some goal and he is always looking for new goals.

Pask (1968)

A [learning] style is a disposition to adopt one class of learning strategy.

Learning Strategies, Teaching Strategies, and Conceptual or Learning Style (1988)

Complex human learning is a concept involving communication between the participant in the learning process, who commonly occupy the roles of learner and teacher.

Pask (1976)

Cybernetics offers a scientific approach to the cussedness of organisms, suggests how their behaviours can be catalysed and the mystique and rule of thumb banished.

An Approach to Cybernetics (1961)

To summarize the matter, teaching systems ought to be conversational in form and so devised that strategies are matched to individual competence.

Pask (1975)

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