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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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.Edward Thorndike
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.
Edward Thorndike
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
Edward Thorndike
Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
Edward Thorndike
When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.
Edward Thorndike
The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
Edward Thorndike
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