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Development of an organism from a single germ cell into a multicellular entity is a self-organizing system from any point of view and I wish to contend that this self-organizing system is a subsystem of the self-organizing system called 'evolution'.

— Gordon Pask An Approach to Cybernetics (1961)

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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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