"In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. She says, Open your mouth and shut your eyes And I'll give you something to make you wise; and thereupon she keeps her promise, and seems to take her pay in the fun of tormenting us."

    by Charles Sanders Peirce     in On phenomenology. In Houser et al. (1998), The essential Peirce: Selected philosophical writings. Vol. 2 (1893-1913) (pp. 145-159). Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

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