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Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Aims Behavior Being Certain Changes Characters Concerned Education Four Human Included Materials Means Men Methods Problems Roughly Topics

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To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Appear Been Body Energy Human Human Nature Intelligent Intelligent Man Interest Little Man Mind Much Must Nature Often Scientific Spent Strange Study World

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Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Aim Attainable Helps Measure Probability Psychology

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Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Agriculture Art Botany Chemistry Depend Depends Education Just Physiology Psychology Science

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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Animals Behavior Characters Including Man Psychology Science

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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Animals Eager Fact Find Folk Human Intelligence Matter

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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.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Circumstances Function Intellect Life May Means Our Pleasure Provide Reactions Secure Symptom Welfare

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Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Account Dogs Ever Get Hundreds Lost Magazine Notices Scientific Sends Times

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For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Animals Association Development Faculty Human Look Lower Must Origin Processes

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Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

~Edward Thorndike

Topics: Ability Accustomed Beings Controlling Events Having Human Human Beings Ideas Intellect Isolated Learn Learning Nature Power Rare Really Synonymous Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: August 31st, 1874

Died: August 9th, 1949

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