Friday quote: Precedents

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It is remarkable… how often thinking for oneself will lead us to conclusions written about before we were born.

From a post by Vera Bass, ‘Teaching requires learning’, 6th November 2006.

Many people have probably also said this, but that’s the point, pretty much.

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  1. [...] As a flipside, perhaps, to the quote on precedents from a couple of weeks ago: If there is something really cool, and you can’t understand why somebody hasn’t done it before, it’s because you haven’t done it yourself. [...]

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