Notes on Psychology

Abstract

NOTE. -The ideal meant is the personal one held by the pupil. 2. The greater the ideal the more useful it is to humanity; the more knowledge, reason, discipline, interest, it demands for realization. 3. The needs of society determine the work of the school. Put that into the school which society should have for its improvement. 4. The predominant need of society is character expressed in terms of citizenship. 5. The end and aim of citizenship is ideal community life. 6. The school should be an organization of ideal community life, in which every pupil is a citizen, or is becoming one. 7. The teacher is the organizer of the best society, and the creator of a healthy, normal, moral public opinion. 8. The nature and capacity of the pupil determine his personal relationship to the community (school) of which he is a member. Citizenship develops the best, all the best, and only the best in the child. 9. Knowledge is absolutely essential to the development of the citizen and the progress of the community. Io. The highest and most persistent incentive to learning, under the direction of an efficient organizer of society, is the desire to help others.