I came to America to teach my method - not to enter a research experiment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
My first undertaking in the way of scientific experiment was in the field of economics and psychology.
Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.
I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught.
Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
I often say in my speeches, I say, 'It's rare in life that you get a controlled scientific experiment.' 'Cause you can't do controlled scientific experiments with real people, normally.
I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.
Developmental scientists like me explore the basic science of learning by designing controlled experiments.