The Element Concept in Psychology and Education
| Autor: | Stuart A. Courtis |
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| Rok vydání: | 1955 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Educational Research. 49:223-228 |
| ISSN: | 1940-0675 0022-0671 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00220671.1955.10882275 |
| Popis: | IN HUMAN history, whenever a man strays from the beaten path to begin to develop a new point of view, he is, at first, regardedas "crazy" by his more conservative contemporaries. Columbus had to risk his life to prove the world is round when everyone else was sure it was flat. Galileo spent many years in jail because he tried to prove Copernicus was right when he said the earth moved around the sun. His contemp oraries were convinced by their experiences that the earth is rigidly stable and immovable, and of course any sane man could see that the sun moves. Dozens of similar illustrations might be given. A young physician, a friend of mine, has recently accepted a posi tion as surgeon in a mission hospital on an Indian reservation in A r i zona. He was much astonished to discover that his patients believed the world is flat, and much more astonished to find his attempts to teach them the truth were of no avail. His patients just thought he was crazy, following the primitive pattern of psychological response to new ideas that are strange. My first educational test was given in 1907. It was only a few years before I realized, from a study of my own test results and published lit erature on educational measurement, that William James was right way back in 1892 when he said psychology was |
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