Robert N. Proctor (1954) American historian
Source: Value-free science?: Purity and power in modern knowledge, 1991, p. 13
“The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do”
— John Holt, book How Children Fail
How Children Fail (1964).
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