Principles of Learning

"And so the learner takes what is objective to his teachers, fuses it with his own peculiar thought in this subjective state, and then puts it in the form of words and gives it back as his own objectification of his own experience." (Boggs, 1907)

Too often pedagogy has taken it for granted that consciousness is dealing with exactly the same material in the same form while learning that it does later when the subject is learned, and hence it has given rules for the arrangement of definite ideas instead of for forming the clear, definite ideas out of the vague, confused state popularly called feeling, through a transition stage which we call interest, until the ideas stand out clear and well defined and expressible in words. (Boggs, 1907)