An introduction to educational psychology

Teaching is a task which, by nature, is full of perplexities, demands many hours of tutelage, and a feeling for, rather than a knowledge of human nature. This book attempts to balance attention between practical teaching situations and educational and psychological experimentation, to relate the experimental theory of psychology to the work of the teacher. This attempt is made, not so much in the way of definite rule-of-thumb instruction, but by showing wherever possible the practical implications of research by means of generalization. Throughout the book the concept of the individual as a growing, changing, reacting organism is emphasized, as is also the viewpoint of psychology as an objective study of human behavior.