Mental Discipline and Educational Values
William Harry Heck (Author)
* Paperback: 98 pages
* Publisher: General Books (August 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0217022138
* ISBN-13: 9780217022132
This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III REVIEW OF EXPERIMENTS Space will not allow descriptions of all the experiments so far made, which furnish evidence in regard to the doctrine of formal discipline.
Rather than give a brief summary of each experiment, we have deemed it more profitable to describe typical and important ones, using as far as possible the words of those who conducted them.
We have not considered it wise or even just, at this stage of the investigation, to enter into a detailed criticism of these experiments; but we have tried to select the most valuable experiments, have let the experimenters speak for themselves, and have left to the reader the responsibility of weighing their evidence.
Care has been taken to describe experiments which seem to favor the doctrine of formal discipline, as well as those which seem to oppose it. The results of the other experiments are briefly stated in the summaries mentioned. We are not specially concerned with the large number of experiments onthe effect of practice and the formation of habits is only one function.
The reader is referred to the recent summaries of these by Ellison,1 Bag- ley,2 and Whipple.3 Our special concern is with experiments on the transfer of the effect of practice from one function to another. Summaries of most of these latter experiments are given by several of the authors mentioned in our bibliography. Although the experimenters variously interpret the bearing of their results on the doctrine of formal discipline, they differ mainly as to the extent to which the effect of practice in one function can be transferred to other functions having elements in common with it.
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