Review of Human behavior, in its relation to the study of educational

Abstract

Reviews the book, Human behavior, in its relation to the study of educational, social and ethical problems by Paton (1921). The main thesis of the book is that the key to the complexities, of adult human behavior is to be found in the simpler sorts of behavior appearing in the lower, and even lowest, animals, in the earliest stages of human life (including the prenatal) and in the disordered processes of mental and nervous disease. To the general reader the chapter on Education will perhaps prove most interesting and can hardly fail to win the hearty approval of any who know what current education in the home and schools actually is and what it might be, but those who have occasion to use the book as a whole will regret that Dr. Paton has not employed more uniformly the direct and luminous style of which he shows himself occasionally to be the master and that he has chosen to present so large a part of his material in so abstract a manner. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)