Art Quote by William James

Psychology should be the chief basic science upon which the practices of education depend. It should have supplied education with the information it needs…

— J. P. Guilford

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

— James Mark Baldwin

“Of course present knowledge of psychology is nearer to zero than to complete perfection, and its applications to teaching must therefore be often incomplete,…

— Edward Lee Thorndike

It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.

— William James

Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.

— William James

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."

— William James

The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.

— William James

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

— Sherwood Anderson

Scientific societies are as yet in their infancy. It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more…

— Bertrand Russell

The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion.

— Plato

“Psychology is the science of mental life”

— William James

“But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of the jury,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky