Part one of term paper
“Which would have advanced the most at the end of the month, -the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this-or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the meanwhile and had received a Rodgers penknife from his father? Which wou ...

Part two of term paper
... it could only be known by intuition. Through nature and our own experiences we are able to learn, not by the teachings and gifts of others.(In order to understand things better we need to do less scholarly work and read more into the signs of nature). In a situation where a boy must make his own jackknife he learns more than another boy who is taught how to do the same work and merely given a jackknife. The boy who has done his own work has achieved the knowledge through experience; he has learn ...