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- Publisher
- Ginn & Company
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1928 American Psychological Association
- Pages
- 33 –53
- DOI
- 10.1037/14850-002
- Publisher site
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Abstract
Learning is a result of the interaction of the individual and his environment. As such, it is not to be conceived of as something that takes place only in school. Creeping over the floor, Baby comes into contact with a radiator and burns his fingers. His behavior, so far as it is concerned with radiators, is changed forever. "Experience keeps a dear school," as Benjamin Franklin well said, but we learn at no other. The concept of experience is fundamental to education. The individual who undergoes an experience is changed. He is not the individual he was before he had the experience; he is that individual plus the experience. Learning is possible only because we are changed by our experiences. Father spanked us to give us an "experience"! (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Published: Sep 21, 2015
Keywords: human behavior acquisition; psychological basis of education; learning; experience