Editorial

Abstract

No one can deny that Adler was one of the greatest modern pedagogues. He devoted himself with ardent passion to teaching his methods directed essentially at avoiding educational errors. Since the child's psychic development is based on the processes of imitation-competition, it is precisely from parental figures that those behavioral traits can take shape that will be able to condition in a negative sense the individual's lifestyle for his entire existence. It is therefore toward parents that Adler directed his greatest attention. We can now realize how his teachings ended up influencing the thinking of all humanity much more than his contemporaries had anticipated. Individual Psychology does not propose modules with quick educational dictates; it merely indicates a very simple course of action, basing its pedagogical technique especially on the principle of social feeling. “Social feeling,” Adler said, ”is the barometer of normality. It is on the basis of the principle of social feeling that Individual Psychology has developed its educational techniques.” And again, “Love is the most important means of education. Education is possible only by virtue of love...”