The success of educational efforts much depends upon the personal relationship between the teacher and the pupil. This point should not be neglected either by the practical teacher or the education theorist. The teacher is prone to the influence of parental complexities, because for the pupil, he is the psychological situation of the father or […]
Statistics is a science dealing with numerical facts, collected systematically with a definite aim or purpose of interpretation and study. It is a branch of mathematics which evaluates numeric data. Talking in numbers always carries conviction. Telling the child’s mental age (MA) or calculating his IQ is a modern device and with the help of […]
This is the oldest of all transfer theories (also known as the Faculty Theory) . This theory assumes that the mind of composed of so many independent faculties, e.g. memory, attention, imagination, reasoning and judgment. These faculties, according to this theory, are nothing but the “muscles of the mind” and like muscles of the body, […]
“No subject is ever well understood and no art is intelligently practiced, if the light which the other studies are able to throw upon it is deliberately shut out.” Education is a co-ordinated process. Teaching of various subjects is hence correlated. Herbert first conceived the idea of correlating the teaching of various subjects. Later on […]
