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Applied psychology : an introduction to the principles and practice of education
This volume has been prepared at the request of many teachers and Inspectors that I should publish some of my lec¬ tures on the Psychology, Principles and Practice of Education, which have been given from time to time before Teachers’ Asso¬ ciations. It was urged that though there are many excellent books on general Psychology, there is still room for one which more directly meets the needs of the teacher. Some of these works are too abstract and deal with philosophical questions that very remotely concern the science of education ; others are too superficial, i.e., in their attempts to make psychology easy, they have made it worthless for the educator as well as for the student of philosophy. Most writers on psychology declare that a knowledge of that subject is indispensable in the training of the teacher; but it must be confessed that the ordinary teacher, even after reading psychologies that claim to be specially pre¬ pared for teachers, fails to see the direct bearing of the sub¬ ject on the work of instruction..
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