ABSTRACT
The sorrows of yesterday are submerged in the joys of to-day; and an important element in the psychology of the stock-market is that the pessimism of last week is forgotten in the present elation, though to-day's rise may be made to order. This human tendency to forget is of supreme importance in the psychology of learning, so far at least as what one learns through experience or otherwise is to be used in reasoning. Learning in its widest sense is profiting from experience. Education is sometimes said to consist of habit formation and that only those acts should be repeated which can best be performed when automatized. Improvement, to be permanent, must result finally in certain habits which constitute the form, tensions, and movements; and satisfaction certainly promotes habit formation. The mind should be active during the practice, in order that errors may be more quickly eliminated and the most effective improvements chosen.
