ABSTRACT
Psychology would add to the belief that it is only in virtue of past experience that new experience is interpreted. A detached and impartial attitude is an indispensable condition of proper understanding and of consequent educational treatment. The free activities of individual men and women which have been claimed as the only source of benefit to the world at large are included in the aims of education. In the first place there is the child-study movement inaugurated by Rousseau, which consisted in the making of extensive but not always very scientific investigations of the child's activity, from which certain conclusions as to his correct educational treatment were drawn. If then the problem of the educator can be defined as the temporary control of environment to produce a desired resultant product, he must join the psychologist in the study of behaviour.
