Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
From Edward Thorndike
It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
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