The argument that education should appeal chiefly to sight because most sensory experience is visual is contrary to accepted psychological principles¶

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q1 i? Freeman argues that the popular claim that 90 per cent of sensory experience comes through the eye cannot justify visual education, because sensation does not possess the immediate significance the argument implies and the initiating sense is of minor importance in total experience. → Frank N. Freeman 1922

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Frank N. Freeman 1922¶

Frank N. Freeman. (1922). Research Versus Propaganda in Visual Education. The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. XI, No. 5. https://psycnet.apa.org/journals/edu/13/5/

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Theoretical argument, not a data study. Freeman analyzes the advocates' argument that "It is estimated by psychologists that 90 per cent of our sensory experience comes through the eye" and finds no such statement in psychological texts; he argues total experience is largely non-visual and shaped by interpretation, other sensations, and motor responses.

"Psychologists do not concern themselves with estimates of the relative frequency of sensations of the different sense organs. I am reasonably familiar with a good many texts in psychology but I never met with a statement which is at all akin to the one which forms the foundation of the above mentioned argument."

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