> The common assumptions that, if the [person] only thinks, one thought is just as good for his mental discipline as another, and that the end of study is the amassing of information, both tend to foster superficial, at the expense of significant, thought...

> The best mental habit involves a balance between paucity and redundancy of suggestions.

https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/08/18/how-we-think-john-dewey/

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