ABSTRACT
The study of psychology begins with perception; and so too does the study of education. Although the adjustment of individuals to one another and to their common environment is the end of education, perception is the beginning and the continuous process of achieving that end. A perception, therefore, is any experienced circuit of events. In time it has a beginning and an end, although in the mesh of continuous happening, in which different strands are constantly overlapping, it is often difficult, if not impossible, to determine either an absolute beginning or a finite end; which leads us to wonder if time, in its ever on-flowing course, is really the safest guide in the analysis of experience. If it is not, then the conception of a circuit in which a want is satisfied is perhaps a truer description of adjustment. In turning full circle the end coincides with the beginning; in satisfying a want a gap is filled, and the want disappears. But this, too, is a crude attempt to describe in alien terms a fact of experience which cannot be thus simplified without a certain falsification.
