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Edward Thorndike Quotes: 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.
         

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



Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.



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

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



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.

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.



All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.

All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.



He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.

He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.



Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.

Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.



The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.



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.

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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