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Cybernetics is the science or the art of manipulating defensible metaphors; showing how they may be constructed and what can be inferred as a result of their existence.

— Gordon Pask Pask (1966)

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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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