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There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.
There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays an active role in determining the process of solution.
Approximate author period: c. 1967 AD · modern
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- Neil Postman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1967 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Neil Postman, based on documented lifetime 1931 to 2003. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436131 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q436131 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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