Psychology for Teachers (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Psychology for TeachersUsually, all the student's work before beginning this subject has been objective. To plunge him headlong into subjective phenomena is too much like the method of teach ing swimming by throwing the learner overboard. From the known to the unknown the old rule holds.The method here adopted consists in (i) passing from the familiar picture of man in his common environment to a study, with genetic Sidelights, of Body, Brain, and Mind, (2) showing the relation of adjustment between The Mental and the Environmental, and (3) explaining, in the study of Mind, Nervous System, and Behavior, how the neuro-mental governing and steering system ac complishes its complex task of adjustment. In this way we complete the sensori-motor circle, inward from body to mind, outward from mind to behavior.The frequently found plan of isolating the discussion of the nervous system in a separate chapter has not been followed. Such knowledge is better assimilated and applied if presented in direct connection with the most closely related mental facts.In Part One, which gives an airplane view of the entire science, causing its larger features to stand out, there are developed a few simple laws which, applied throughout the book, effectively organize and simplify the whole com plex subject.Part Two shows a nearer and more detailed view of the facts, such facts as teachers most need to know. The final chapters synthesize what might otherwise remain frag mentary knowledge, into a unified study of personality, mental hygiene, and mental efficiency.My debts are too many to mention save one, that to my wife, my kindest and most merciless critic.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.