GROUNDWORK OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

This book is a study of educational problems complementary to that provided in my earlier Groundwork of Educational Psychology, to which it should be regarded as a companion volume. While it would be gross exaggeration to say that the psychological movement in education has spent itself, it is yet true that the swift movement of civilization towards the catastrophe of a second great war has brought about, both in educational circles and among the general public, a clearer realization of the cardinal fact that the science of education must be subordinate to its philosophy, and that knowledge of child nature and technique in teaching, however exact, are merely tools to employ in the effort to attain a worth-while aim in education. No apology, therefore, should be needed for a consideration of the philosophy that must guide our practice if the education and the re-education of the period of reconstruction are to play the part that is desired and expected of them. Keeping in mind chiefly the needs of students who are preparing for the teaching profession. We have aimed at providing a first discussion of the principles and practice of education from a broad philosophical standpoint. In the interests of clear exposition we have largely ignored the subtleties of thought that are rightly characteristic of a systematic study of philosophy. James S. Ross C.B.E., M.A., B.Sc. (St. Andrews) M.A. (London) is Formerly Principal of Westminister College

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