Edward Thorndike
Biography
Quotes
- Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
- 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.
- There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
