Edwin Boring: Generation

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“Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.”

Edwin Boring

Edwin G. Boring (1942) Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology, Preface. p. xi

Education , Fear , Learning , Time

“It is not likely that the history of psychology can be written in the next three centuries without mention of Freud's name and still claim to be a general history of psychology… Perhaps, had Freud been smothered in his cradle, the times would have produced a substitute, It is hard to say. The dynamics of history lack control experiments.”

Edwin Boring

Cited in: Eric Shiraev (2010) A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective. p. 314
A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929

History , Time

“Titchener interest lay in the generalized, normal, adult mind that had also been Wundt's main concern.”

Edwin Boring

Source: A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929, p. 407

“Fechner laid down the general outlines of his program [psychophysics] in ZendAvesta, the book about heaven and the future life. Imagine sending a graduate student of psychology nowadays to the Divinity School for a course in immortality as preparation for advanced experimental work in psychophysics! How narrow we have become!”

Edwin Boring

Source: History, psychology, and science. 1963, p. 128: As cited in: Hergenhahn (2008;254)

Life , Books , School , Imagination