The psychology of learning / by Edward L. Thorndike.

  • Edward Thorndike
Date:
1913
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    I such a study could strengthen, the only one that it calls into exercise, is the memory. . . . The only thing that can “de- velop” or “strengthen” the faculties or the mind is knowledge, and all real knowledge is science. The effect of this on the mind is to furnish it with something. It constitutes its con- tents, and, as we have seen, the power, value, and real character of mind depend upon its contents. Without knowledge the mind, however capable, is impotent and worthless.” [L. F. Ward, ’o6, pp. 311-312, passim] 28 I
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