Show right in denying that sensations as such are true elements of knowledge But the reasons he gave for this nThe : rationalist was conclusion and the consequences he drew from j I it all were Sen- wrong nations are not parts of any knowledge good or bad superior or in- i j ferior imperfect or complete They are rather provocations in- - - - i i challenges to an act of inquiry which is to terminate in citements t knowledge They are not ways of knowing things inferior in value to j I i I reflective ways to the cause they are not ways flective that require thought and inference of knowing at all They are stimuli to be- ways re- - - as interpretations they raise the and inference j I questions: this What does shock matter? How is I i ! What should be done about environment distrubed? alter my ny relation to it? How my shall I course of action to meet the change that has taken place in shall I readjust my behavior in response? Sensation is thus as the sensationalist claimed the beginning of the surroundings? How but only in the sense that the experienced shock of change knowledge is the necessary stimulus to the investigating and comparing which eventually produce knowledge” The Francis W Parker School Another school founded on the principles of child growth and development was the Francis W Parker School in Chicago It was opened in 1901 under the leadership of Reconstruction in Philosophy American library of World Literature Inc 1950) John Dewey (New p York: 85 New |