Lessons in psychology : designed especially for private students, and as a textbook in secondary schools.
"Less than a year ago, a number of teachers at an institute which the author was attending, requested him to give them Correspondence Lessons in Psychology. He consented without adequately considering the amount of labor it would involve. For a little reflection enabled him to see that the only...
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| Language: | English |
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Columbus, OH :
Hann & Adair Printers,
1890.
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| Online Access: | APA PsycBooks |
| Summary: | "Less than a year ago, a number of teachers at an institute which the author was attending, requested him to give them Correspondence Lessons in Psychology. He consented without adequately considering the amount of labor it would involve. For a little reflection enabled him to see that the only author he could recommend to them--Sully--was much too difficult for students of their attainments. He soon saw that the labor of explaining so difficult a book would be much greater than that of writing lessons directly for them week by week. He accordingly decided to do this, and this little book is the result. As appears from its title, it does not undertake to discuss, even in a superficial way, all the phases of mental activity. It deals only with those facts and laws of mind, which, in the judgment of the author, it is most useful for teachers to be familiar with. The style of the book is colored by the fact that it was originally written for a class of teachers. The book lays no special claim to originality. The object of the author throughout has been to call the attention of his readers to important mental facts in such a way as to set them to observing their own minds and the minds of their pupils, in order to see whether or not he was right. Profoundly convinced as he is, of the importance of a knowledge of Psychology to the teacher, he is quite as strongly convinced that the only really fruitful knowledge of Psychology which the teacher will ever gain he will derive from a study of his own mind and the minds of the people with whom he comes in contact, and that books about Psychology are useful chiefly as they give suggestions in this direction. Accordingly, the aim of the author throughout has been to act the part of a guide in a strange city--tell his readers where to look to find valuable truths"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (349 pages) Also issued in print. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |