Suggestion in Education

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Excerpt from Suggestion in Education: A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculties of the Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science, in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, (Department or Pedagogy) The following study deals with a perfectly definite problem. It is the purpose to state explicitly a single law of pedagogy, to discuss its validity as a scientific proposition, and to show its significance in the whole Of educational theory. It is a work Of formulating and expounding rather than Of establishing through scientific research. The facts employed as data in the discussion are, in the main, common property - an inheritance from centuries Of thought upon educational aims and practices. While no attempt has been made to verify them by extended Observation and experiment, the writer feels that his experi ence of more than a score Of years in the class-room gives some war rant for their acceptance. Until experimental psychology advances beyond its present stage of a too exclusive investigation of sense-phe nomena and deals with the facts of rational life in general, and until the future pedagogical laboratory makes possible a like critical study Of educational phenomena, we must content ourselves to deal tenta tively with the facts found in common consciousness in such a manner as seems most productive for the ends sought. Such a study as is here presented, will not, however, prove unproductive for the purposes of practical pedagogy, and it is certainly not without its more strictly scientific value. It presents and explains a clearly defined working hypothesis for guidance in subsequent research, thus pre-empting a field for future exploration. To gather and evaluate by true scientific method the data necessary to establish or confute this law would be a decisive step toward giving pedagogy a right to a place among the modern sciences. But such a consecrated work demands an equip ment of resources and an opportunity for study which the writer cannot at present command, consequently he contents himself with merely delimiting the field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.