American - Psychologist | August 31, 1874 - August 9, 1949
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
Edward Thorndike
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Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
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To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
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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.
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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
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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.
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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
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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.
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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.
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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
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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.
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Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
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