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report of a committee set up in 1931, and oriented.' Although the form of the book is
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working since, to outline and conduct an clue to the chairman, Professor Prescott, all
exploratory study as to the recognition to eight members of committee have con-
be accorded emotional factors in the tributed by discussion and suggestion, and
educational process, with special reference signify their approval of the report as a
to the questions whether emotion has been whole.
unduly ignored in the stress laid upon the The ground covered in the various
acquisition of knowledge .
; whether chapters is very comprehensive and
education should concern itself zvith the thorough, and nowhere are the educational
strength and direction of desires developed implications lost sight of. The committee
or inhibited by the educational process; does not hesitate to state that it regards the
whether the stress laid on the attitude of present work as only a beginning of the
neutral detachment,desirable in the scientific problem, but if so, its research has been
observer, has been unduly extended into detailed and painstaking.
126 MENTAL WELFARE
The first few chapters deal with absence of feelings of hope, purpose and
theoretical views of the affective side and challenge in their lives Life has no signifi-
their bearing on education. Much is made cant place for them. The writer feels that
of Dumas' three levels of emotional one of the problems facing education is to
behaviour in terms of level of shock, "les give experiences to young people which may
petits chocs", "les chocs vioyeiis" and "les reveal possible significant roles for them.
tjrands chocs ", mild, strong and disintegra- The chapter concludes with a precis of the
tive shocks. Emotions may be regarded as role of education in producing affective
adjustive reactions of the body in which maturity.
attempts are made to adapt the body Other chapters deal with equally impor-
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economy as a whole to the demands of any tant topics such as Basic personality needs
situation. These adjustive reactions show and conditions which frustrate them' in
more significant variation in regard to the which the role played by affective factors
intensity of the shock or emotion ex- in causing maladjustment is considered.
perienced than they do in passing from one Emphasis, it is suggested, should be placed
category of emotion to another. This is an on the positive side, that is on factors in the
M. Collins.