The teacher's handbook of psychology : on the basis of "Outlines of psychology" / by James Sully.

  • Sully, James, 1842-1923
Date:
1897
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Credit: The teacher's handbook of psychology : on the basis of "Outlines of psychology" / by James Sully. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION. The present edition has been carefully revised through- out, largely re-written and enlarged by about fifty pages. While seeking to preserve the original charac- ter of the book as an introduction, I have felt it necessary—in view of the fact that our best Training Colleges for Secondary Teachers are now making a serious study of psychology—to amplify somewhat and bring up to date the exposition of scientific principles. I have also touched on those recent developments of experimental psychology which have concerned them- selves with the measurement of the simpler mental processes, and which promise to have important educa- tional results by supplying accurate tests of children’s abilities. The new branch of the science known as child-psychology has been more fully drawn upon, from the conviction that it is only when teachers have made a careful study of the spontaneous move- ments of children’s minds during the first years that they are likely to find their way readily to the minds of older children, which preserve many more survivals of the earlier mental characteristics than most of us are wont to suppose. The practical applications have purposely been left in the form of general prescriptions,