Ideal Education

Extract

The ideal education as here set forth is that which gives the first place in its consideration to the building up of integrated personalities. The aim of humane education must be directed towards something more complete in the- humanist sense than mere professional and vocational efficiency, however necessary this may be.

Dr. Castiello approaches the subject from the standpoint of empirical psychology and makes full use of all that is most valuable in this science. Educational psychology, however, is more concerned with problems of efficiency and skill than with cultural values. Its aim is strictly utilitarian, and so, to a great extent, materialistic. Nevertheless the various tests and devices invented for measuring intelligence and other abilities have their use, and are not to be despised.

A humane psychology of education reaches out to something beyond mere skill and ability and endeavours to penetrate more deeply into the constitution of personality.