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All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

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All doctrine, and all intellectual discipline, arise from pre-existent knowledge, O.F. Owen (1853) | All communications of knowledge from teacher to pupil by way of reasoning pre-suppose some pre-existing knowledge., E.S. Bouchier (1901) | All instruction given or received by way of argument proceeds from pre-existent knowledge, G.R.G. Mure (1928).

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