ABSTRACT
The human being under education has two functions - the formation of habits and the assimilation of ideas. Physiologists and 'rational psychologists' have made the basis of habit pretty plain to educationalists. The nature, functions, and behaviour of ideas, and how ideas have power in their impact upon the cerebral hemisphere to make some sort of sensible impression - all this is matter as to which they are able only to make 'guesses at truth'. When they consider that the setting up of relations, moral and intellectual, is their chief concern in life, and that the function of education is to put the child in the way of relations proper to him, and to offer the inspiring idea which commonly initiates a relation, they perceive that a little incident like the above may be of more importance than the passing of an examination.
