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“Anything which could be found out by thinking I never was told, until I had exhausted my efforts to find it out for myself.”

John Stuart Mill

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Autobiography
Date
1873
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Mill describes an education built around discovery before explanation, emphasizing active reasoning rather than passive recall.

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Autobiography, Chapter I; Mill describes his father’s method of making him attempt a problem independently before being told the solution.

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