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Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual

— 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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