
I recently came across the comparison of different external approaches to attempting to attain the understanding of human behaviour. One is widely accepted and used, which is derived from the past work of a German psychologist named Karl Stumpf, which related the observation of child behaviours with botany. In such an approach, Karl Stumpf related such behaviours with the stimuli and conditions offered by the environment in order to cultivate and nurture the development of children, in a similar way we assist the development of a flower in a garden, which implies the term kindergarten. As a consequence, the flowers become dependent on what the environment can offer to them, as they usually possess little or no experience for enhancing themselves on their own. One exception is the lotus flower, which emerges and develops its beauty from the mud. Other approaches, such as the one performed by Wolfgang Köhler during World War I, related the development of children with zoology, and ...