Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
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The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
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The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
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This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
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The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
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When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.
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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
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On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
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