The function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences. The word 'freely' marks the difference between the principle of knowledge and that of habit...habit apart from knowledge does not make allowance for change of conditions, for novelty...This distinction between habit and knowledge accounts for the importance of training in technology on the way to using technology in teaching. To know a tool is to have a degree of control or mastery that is free to develop new patterns or customs as new circumstances arise.
...the skill, based on habit alone, of the mechanic will desert him when something unexpected occurs in the running of the machine. But a man who understands the machine is the man who knows what he is about. He knows the conditions under which a given habit works, and is in a position to introduce the changes which will readapt it to new conditions...We respond to connections and not simply to the immediate occurrence...knowledge means that selection may be made from a much wider range of habits (p. 273).
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