Key points include:
① Oppose speculative pedagogy
② Advocating the application of the research results and methods of experimental psychology to pedagogy research.
③ Educational experiments are divided into putting forward hypotheses, testing experiments and proving conclusions.
④ Advocating experiments, comparisons, statistics and new methods to study education, and taking experimental data as the basis for reforming education system, curriculum and teaching methods.
⑤ Educational experiments should be carried out in real school environment and teaching practice.
experience
From 1904 to 1907, he co-edited Experimental Pedagogy with German educator William August Lai (1862- 1926) to publicize the idea of experimental education.
19 1 1 participated in the preparation of Hamburg university and initiated the establishment of "juvenile research institute", which promoted the research work of experimental education. His main works are Psychology of Learning (1903), Introduction to Experimental Pedagogy (1907), Intelligence and Will (1907) and Outline of Experimental Pedagogy (19 14).