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.

children should be trained in a way that will make them socially efficient. Parents generally wish their children to become honest, truthful, sympathetic, and industrious. It should be the aim of education to accomplish this social ideal.

The unlearned acts are known as instincts and the acquired acts are known as habits.

We learn about the human mind by observing our own mind. We learn that we see under certain objective conditions, hear under certain objective conditions, taste, smell, feel cold and warm under certain objective conditions. In the case of ourselves, we can know both our actions and our mind. In the case of others, we can know only their actions, and must infer their mental states from our own in similar circumstances. With certain restrictions and precautions this inference is legitimate.

the method of observation and experiment.