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.
Edward Thorndike
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Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. -
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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.
- 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.
- There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
- Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
- From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.