Movement is Productive!
“There is a mechanical puzzle that consists of three small metal tubes of different diameters sealed in a glass-covered box. The Problem is to get the smaller tubes inside the larger. Now one can try to do it methodically; then it usually takes quite a long time. But it can also be done another way. One can just shake the box at random until the tubes are inside one another. Does that happen by chance? It looks that way, but I don’t think so. For an idea lurks behind this method. Namely, that movement alone can succeed where deliberation fails. Is it not the same with the learner? What does the teacher accomplish through methodology? At most, activity. If everything goes well! But things can also go badly, and then what he accomplishes is lethargy. Yet Lethargy produces nothing. Only activity, movement is productive. Then why not start moving right away? But Comfort?! Comfort avoids movement; it therefore does not take up the search.”
-Arnold Schoenberg. Theory of Harmony, 1910.
