How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study

"How to Use Your Mind" by Harry Dexter Kitson is a guide for students and educators from the early 1900s about how to study better. It's mostly for college freshmen who are having a tough time getting used to college. Kitson says that most students don't do well because they don't know how to study right, not because they aren't smart. The book starts by talking about the problems that new college students have, like going to lectures instead of recitations and dealing with harder schoolwork. Kitson says students need to learn new study habits that help them focus, remember things, and really pay attention in class. He thinks learning how to learn is just as important as learning new facts. The author also suggests he will talk about how to improve memory, take better notes, and understand how the mind works when you're learning, setting up the rest of the book to teach these ideas.