Excerpt from Apperception: A Monograph on Psychology and Pedagogy<br><br>Ir we inquire into the genesis of our present educational ideals, we shall find that they take their rise in the hearts of a few great men. Comenius, Rousseau, and Pestalozzi, to whom much that is excellent in our American schools today can be traced, were men who wrote and taught because they saw a great need, because their intense emotional natures were stirred to the depths at the sight of children growing up in ignorance or wasting the precious time of youth in empty verbalism. Like all great reformers, they were governed more by their feelings and instincts than by the scientific spirit, which analyzes everything, never taking a step not warranted by logical deduction. Logic is too cold and slow for a man whose heart is on fire with some plan for the regeneration of society. The initial impulses of our educational advance have been given by men of this type. Usually they have cared but little, even in the later years of their activity, for putting their ideas into scientific form. Where they have done so, however, it is evident that they have merely adopted the primitive psychological conceptions current among the people. Early attempts to reduce these psychological notions to a system led to the theory of dis parate or independent faculties, out of which at a later.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.