The importance of the study of the emotions in relation to human conduct is well understood. Just how consciousness behaves under the influence of the fundamental human emotions like fear and anger, is one of vital interest to the psychologist and educator. It has always been difficult to study the structural side of our emotions because of an inability to control voluntarily our emotions for purposes of introspection. The structure of emotions is primarily important in so far as structure may allow an interpretation of function. The study of the emotions has for the most part been limited to theoretical discussions based on the observations of normal and abnormal persons and on the casual introspection of individual authors. This work is an attempt to study systematically the emotion of anger in relation to the behavior of consciousness, the ideas and feelings associated in the development of anger, the reactive side of consciousness under the influence of anger, individual differences in behavior, manner of the disappearance and diminution of anger, devices used in the control and facilitation of the emotion, and the conscious after-effects including the inter-relation of anger and other feelings, emotions and attitudes which follow.

Cinsiyet ve üreme, canlı yaşamının sürekliliğini sağlar. İnsanlarda cinsellik doğumla başlar ve tüm yaşam boyunca devam eder. Cinsel kimlik, kişinin biyolojik cinsiyetinden farklı olarak kendisini kadın ya da erkek olarak algılamasıdır. Sağlıklı bir cinsel kimlik gelişiminde cinsel kimlik, kişinin cinsiyetinden haberdar olması, cinsiyetine uygun davranışlar göstermesi ve bundan mutluluk duyması önemlidir.

Cinsel eğitim bireyin fiziksel, duygusal ve cinsel gelişimini anlaması olumlu bir kişilik kavramı geliştirmesi, insan cinselliğine, başkalarının haklarına, görüş ve davranışlarına saygılı bir bakış açısı edinmesi ve olumlu davranış biçimi, değer yargıları geliştirmesi eğitimidir.

Cinsel eğitimde öncelikle anne babaların eğitimi hedeflenmelidir. Aksi takdirde anne babaların istemediği takdirde çocuklar ya da ergenler istemediği kişilerden bilgi edinebilir, gözetleme, takip etme yoluna başvurabilirler, yaşıtlarından bilgi alabilirler, kendi başlarına deneyler yapabilirler. Ailede başlayan cinsel eğitim okulda da sistemli bir şekilde sürmelidir.

Ülkemiz gibi cinsel eğitim konusuna tedirgin, çekingen, korkak yaklaşılan, ayıp günah sayılan ülkelerde bu sorumluluk daha da artmaktadır. Sorumluluğun kapsamında sadece çocuklar gençler değil her yaştan her sosyo-ekonomik ve sosyo-kültürel düzeyden insanların olması gerekmektedir. Bu kitabın anne babalara öğretmenlere öğretmen adaylarına ve konuyla ilgilenen herkese yararlı olması dilerim.

The profession of teaching has long been characterised by certain habitual convictions, which Spencer undertook to shake rudely, and even to deride. The first of these convictions is that all education, physical, intellectual, and moral, must be authoritative, and need take no account of the natural wishes, tendencies, and motives of the ignorant and undeveloped child. The second dominating conviction is that to teach means to tell, or show, children what they ought to see, believe, and utter. Expositions by the teacher and books are therefore the true means of education. The third and supreme conviction is that the method of education which produced the teacher himself and the contemporary or earlier scholars, authors, and publicists, must be the righteous and sufficient method. Its fruits demonstrate its soundness, and make it sacred. Herbert Spencer, in the essays included in the present volume, assaulted all three of these firm convictions. Accordingly, the ideas on education which he put forth more than fifty years ago have penetrated educational practice very slowly particularly in England; but they are now coming to prevail in most civilised countries, and they will prevail more and more. Through him, the thoughts on education of Comenius, Montaigne, Locke, Milton, Rousseau, Pestalozzi, and other noted writers on this neglected subject are at last winning their way into practice, with the modifications or adaptations which the immense gains of the human race in knowledge and power since the nineteenth century opened have shown to be wise.

Charles W. Eliot.

1910