The Science of Human Nature / A Psychology for Beginners

Education should also do what it can to make people able to enjoy the world and life to the fullest and highest extent.

To understand all the aspects of the world, we must study all the sciences.

We study about things instead of studying things

It is a lawful world; it is not a world of chance. Everything is related to everything else.

If we wish to remember knowledge, the knowledge must be seen in the clearest light, really be knowledge, at the outset

The man is sensitive and has the power of action, the power of moving himself.

main difference between a scientist and one who is not a scientist is that the scientist sees the significance of facts, while the non-scientific man sees facts as more or less unrelated things.

we must not only know, we must not only have knowledge, but we must know the significance of the knowledge, must know its meaning.

You are to help your students study human nature. You must, to some extent, be a psychologist yourself before you can teach psychology. You must yourself be a close and scientific student of human nature. Develop in the students the spirit of inquiry and investigation. Teach them to look to their own minds and their neighbor’s actions for verification of the statements of the text. Let the students solve by observation and experiment the questions and problems raised in the text and the exercises.

If we are to understand human nature, we must know something of man’s past; we must therefore treat of the origin and development of the human race.