Psychology for teachers / by C. Lloyd Morgan ; with a preface by J.G. Fitch.

  • C. Lloyd Morgan
Date:
[1894?]
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Credit: Psychology for teachers / by C. Lloyd Morgan ; with a preface by J.G. Fitch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. It is becoming daily more evident to the best teachers that while Education is an art it is also a science, and that if it is ever to be brought to perfection, it should ])e duly studied under both aspects. Mere rules and methods of teaching must ever be to a large extent jiscertained and verified by induction and experiment. But all such rules, if they are to be worth anything, must ultimately be based on mental philosophy, and on acquaintance with the laws of thought and with the constitution of human nature. In all the liberal professions alike, the processes and methods employed need to be investigated in close conection with the scientific principles which underlie them, and which alone can justify their application to practice. As tlie science of jurisprudence is related to the procedure of the law courts, and as the sciences of anatomy and physiology are related to the healing art, so is a true psychology to the profession of a schoolmaster; and it is by his recognition of the theory on which his art is based, that the skilled practitioner is to be dis- tinguished from the unskilled, the artist from the