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About 15 years ago, Robbie asked me what I thought of a talk we had just heard. I indicated that I hadn’t much liked it and noted several serious problems. Robbie agreed with all of the criticisms, but said that he nonetheless liked the talk, because there was one good idea in it that he could use. I agreed with him that the idea was a good one, but it took me a while to understand the wisdom of his position. If there’s one useful idea in a talk, then hearing it has been worthwhile, even if the talk also has numerous deficiencies. On that day and on many others, talking with Robbie changed my thinking for the better.
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Siegler, R.S. (2010). Introduction. In: Ferrari, M., Vuletic, L. (eds) The Developmental Relations among Mind, Brain and Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3666-7_1
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