Excerpt from The Psychology of Child Development: With an Introduction by John Dewey We believe there are two causes for teachers as a whole failing to profit by the study of psychol ogy: first, they go to it expecting to get some thing that it cannot give, and hence they fail to get what it really can give them; in the second place, they go to the wrong sort of a psychology, or rather they have been furnished by educators with the wrong sort. They have been compelled to study the mechanism of mental contents in adult life, rather than the mechanism of mental functions developing within complex social situa tions. In other words, the psychology of the most value to the teacher is the psychology of the unfolding of experience that comes from the interaction of mind with mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.