Child training as an exact science : a treatise based upon the principles of modern psychology, normal and abnormal, by George W. Jacoby.

  • Jacoby, George W., 1856-1940.
Date:
[1914], [©1914]
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Credit: Child training as an exact science : a treatise based upon the principles of modern psychology, normal and abnormal, by George W. Jacoby. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. For these reasons the study of this branch of practical psychology is to be ad- vocated. These resolutions are in direct opposition to the best interests of the teaching profession. A theoretical knowledge of psychotherapy, as I have presented it in my book, certainly is of great value for every pedagog and for every cultured person. But where its practical application is concerned the teacher's motto if he would not endanger his entire authority, should be *'hands off.'' This authority is of even greater import- ance in training weak-minded children than in educating normal ones. The belief that a pedagog of proved efficiency in the education of normal children must, as a matter of course, be as suc- cessful in training defective children, is one which is not upheld by the facts of experience. It is most astonishing what perspicacity the weak- minded often possess for the faults of those about them, and an educator who lays himself open to the just criticism of his wards will lose and never regain his influence over them. Experience teaches that those educators who meet their pupils with quiet determination and unrestricted author-