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.

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• Edward Thorndike:

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

• Edward Thorndike:

  It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the s

• Edward Thorndike:

  Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of educatio

• Edward Thorndike:

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

• Edward Thorndike:

  On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the s

• Edward Thorndike:

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

• Edward Thorndike:

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

• Edward Thorndike:

  So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

• Edward Thorndike:

  Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life;

• Edward Thorndike:

  The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and becaus