Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, … - R. Buckminster Fuller

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Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

R. Buckminster Fuller

Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: they heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

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