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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...conventions of language as spelling and punctuation. Power in Knowledge of the future is of more prediction. WOrth than knowledge of the past. When the two are equal in respect to the intellectual pleasure, the discipline and the moral inspiration given, knowledge that can predict is better than knowledge that merely records, because it helps us better in the main business for which knowledge exists--to control the forces of nature and ourselves. This principle has not had the recognition or influence in education which it deserves. Verification by the future is one of the best tests by which to distinguish science from false opinion. Moreover, knowledge of the past is often of value chiefly as evidence for some other knowledge, and so may be nearly as valuable to the world at large when possessed by only a few experts as when repeated in a great many students' minds. Finally when knowledge is tested to see what it will predict, it is less likely to busy itself with trifles. The use of these principles in actual decisions may be illustrated in the case of the value (for elementary-school pupils in general) of the study now commonly made of Greatest Common Divisor and Least Common Multiple, in compariThese criteria son with an equal amount of study of illustrated. what I shall call the 'Remainder Division Table,'--that is, of the series:--10= _2S 10= _3s and--remainder 10= _4s " _ 10= _5s 79= _8s " _ 79=-9s " 80= _9s " _ " etc. In respect to the improvement of wants--the cultivation of the good will and of impersonal pleasures--there is little reason for choice. The value in either case lies in the mental training and direct utility in satisfying wants. In respect to mental training, also, there is little or no...
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Edward L. Thorndike (1874-1949) had a distinguished career in psychology that spanned more than half a century. Through most of his career, Thorndike was a professor of psychology at Columbia University. He authored more than 500 publications.
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230367357
- ISBN 13 9781230367354
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages62
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