[Review of the book Psychology and education

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Reviews the book, Psychology and education by R. M. Ogden. In this book one of the first men in this country to embrace the Gestalt theory of psychology--it will be remembered that Ogden translated Koffka's Growth of Mind--has attempted to write an educational psychology in terms of that theory. This fact alone makes the work important. Because some of the new points of view are so divergent from the "accepted" ones--it is hard for the conventional psychologist to conceive of reflexes as being derived from instincts rather than prior to them, for example--the book is not, the reviewer believes, suited to beginning students. The chapters on original forms of behavior, perception, and learning are of particular value. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)