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“Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.”

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Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

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

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Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“Ingenuity in meeting and pursuing the pupil, that tact for the concrete situation, though they are the alpha and omega of the teacher's art, are things to which psychology cannot help us in the least.”

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Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

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

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Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

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

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Author:William James

“The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.”

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Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.”

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Author:Charles Kettering

“A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If they can't learn the way we teach, we teach the way they learn.”

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Author:Ole Ivar Lovaas

“To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.”

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Book:Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.”

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.”

Source: Healology