CHAPTER V

PSYCHOLOGY IN RELATION TO CURRENT THOUGHT

1. Characterise the educational thought of the eighteenth century.

2. Show that we, too, have had a period of certainty.

3. Account for the general dissatisfaction we labour under now.

4. By what tests may we discern a working psychology for our own age?

5. Illustrate the fact that the sacredness of the person is among the living thoughts of the age upon which we are being brought up.

6. On what grounds do we demand of education that it should make the most of the person?

7. How is ‘the solidarity of the race’ to be reckoned with in education?

8. Show that the best thought of any age is common thought.

9. Discuss Locke’s _States of Consciousness_.

10. Show that this theory does not provide for the evolution of the person.

11. How does modern physiological-psychology compare with Locke’s theory?

12. How does Professor James define this psychology?

13. Show that this definition makes the production of thought, etc., purely mechanical.

14. How far is this assumption ‘unjustifiable materialism’?

15. What is Professor James’ pronouncement about what is called the ‘new psychology’?

16. Illustrate the fact that a psychology which eliminates personality is dreary and devitalising.

17. By what signs may we recognise the fact when the ‘new psychology’ becomes part of our faith?

18. Show that this system is inadequate, unnecessary, and inharmonious.

19. At what point does it check the evolution of the individual?

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