An Elementary Psychology

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Excerpt from An Elementary Psychology: Suggestions for the Interpretation of Human LifeThe omission of the conventional questions and refer ences at the end of each chapter is desirable for three reasons: First, experience and inquiry prove that they are seldom used. Second, the questions are in nowise likely to be such as the student would ask. A better method is to allow perfect freedom of questions and discus sion on each topic. It will be found that the suggestions concerning larger problems are such as to call-forth many natural questions which the students may be requested to investigate. A list of references is given at the close of the book. Third, such questions have undoubtedly a detrimental effect on the teacher. The extreme form of such ready-made questions was once found in our histories and geographies. When our pedagogy is properly developed, the general read ing book will take the place of the formal textbook. Each year's reforms make this more and more apparent.That I owe much to various authors and publishers for the permission to use certain cuts, I trust is made clear in the text. All references to authors and authority for quotations will be found at the close of the book in an alphabetic list.Besides my indebtedness to friends for examination and correction of manuscript, I am under special obligations to my colleague Dr. S. A. Lough for valuable help and careful examination of proof, to my assistant, Miss Kate Howland, for critical suggestions and final preparation of manuscript, and to Miss Helen Howland for valuable drawings and indexing.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.