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Edward Thorndike

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Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.


— Edward Thorndike


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Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.


— Edward Thorndike


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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.


— Edward Thorndike


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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.


— Edward Thorndike


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Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.


— Edward Thorndike


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For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.


— Edward Thorndike


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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.


— Edward Thorndike


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Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.


— Edward Thorndike


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Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.


— Edward Thorndike


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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.


— Edward Thorndike


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Did you know about Edward Thorndike?

He argued that "selective breeding can alter man's capacity to learn to keep sane to cherish justice or to be happy. " It was later shown[who?] that the speed of learning not the power of learning declined with age. xi).

His work on animal behavior and the learning process led to the theory of connectionism and helped lay the scientific foundation for modern educational psychology. He also worked on solving industrial problems such as employee exams and testing. Edward Lee "Ted" Thorndike (August 31 1874 – August 9 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College Columbia University.

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