In memory of an emeritus MIT professor who reportedly
died on October 8, 2021 —
"Thinking starts with a problem
Located somewhere between behaviorism and introspection,
the school of gestalt psychology teaches that thinking starts
with a problem, a difficulty, a contradiction. It sounds like a truism,
yet is widely ignored in practice. Teachers say their aim is to get
their students to think, yet in classroom after classroom they
violate this psychological principle by giving the solution before
there is any problem."
— Arthur Mattuck in . . .