General Systems Research

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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”
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“If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.”
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