The Psychology of Habit
Abstract
Rousseau holds that education is nothing but the formation of habits and hence its scope in life is wider in application than occurs to the ordinary mind. To the average man of the street habit refers to personal characteristics that mark him from others. Habit is seen in reference to eating and drinking but not distinguished or seen in actions of knowing, sensation and even in willing itself. And yet to even a casual student of this subject daily life is regulated and ruled by habits, formed under varying circumstances and at different times. It plays a greater part in life than we really think, and with-out knowing it, whenever we break a bad habit or improve on a good one it is not a decrease in the habits that we have but is merely the sub-stitution of a new one for the old one.
Subject Area
Psychology
Recommended Citation
Mulcahy, John C, "The Psychology of Habit" (1922). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189841.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189841
