I say moreover that you make a great, a very great mistake if you think that psychology, being a science of the mind's laws, is something from which you can deduce definite programs and schemes and methods of instruction for immediate schoolroom use. Psychology is a science and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves. An intermediary inventive mind must make the application, by using its originality (William James, 1899, Psychology and the Art of Teaching, p. 23).
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