Education as Adjustment: Educational Theory Viewed in the Light of Contemporary ThoughtLongmans, Green, and Company, 1903 - 317 páginas |
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... Aristotle ; surely not the same as in the days and in the land of George Washington or Herbert Spencer . The social environment to be dealt with changes in character with the evolution of the race , and varies with the different races ...
... Aristotle ; surely not the same as in the days and in the land of George Washington or Herbert Spencer . The social environment to be dealt with changes in character with the evolution of the race , and varies with the different races ...
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... Aristotle realized that the individual observer in his contact with the world about him sees things in an individual way , depend- ing upon a vast number of conditions which have contributed to form his particular mental constitu- tion ...
... Aristotle realized that the individual observer in his contact with the world about him sees things in an individual way , depend- ing upon a vast number of conditions which have contributed to form his particular mental constitu- tion ...
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... Aristotle , realizing this more or less explicitly , saw that in order to reach truth the investigator must adopt a mode of looking at the world wherein his prejudices will , to the fullest possible extent , be held in check , so that ...
... Aristotle , realizing this more or less explicitly , saw that in order to reach truth the investigator must adopt a mode of looking at the world wherein his prejudices will , to the fullest possible extent , be held in check , so that ...
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... Aristotle , who , as we have seen , was inclined to investi- gate things directly . He had less faith than his fellow- philosophers in the value of interpreting the world by means of dogmas which had been elaborated in some way or ...
... Aristotle , who , as we have seen , was inclined to investi- gate things directly . He had less faith than his fellow- philosophers in the value of interpreting the world by means of dogmas which had been elaborated in some way or ...
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... Aristotle's educational doctrines with those advocated to - day he will be struck with the similarity in many fundamental respects . He says , among other things , " It is of great importance that children should make those motions that ...
... Aristotle's educational doctrines with those advocated to - day he will be struck with the similarity in many fundamental respects . He says , among other things , " It is of great importance that children should make those motions that ...
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Página 67 - Truth is within ourselves ; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness ; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception— which is truth.
Página 274 - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen, who having sharp and strong wits and abundance of leisure and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors (chiefly Aristotle their dictator) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges...
Página 67 - Binds it, and makes all error : and, to KNOW, Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
Página 147 - His most of all whose kingdom is a school. Supreme he sits ; before the awful frown That bends his brows the boldest eye goes down ; Not more submissive Israel heard and saw At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.
Página 268 - ... cause much trouble later to root out this vicious habit and replace it by purely mental processes. Teachers should be careful, especially with precocious children, not to continue too long in the use of a process that is becoming mechanical ; for it is already growing into a second nature and becoming a part of the unconscious apperceptive process by which the mind reacts against the environment, recognizes its presence, and explains it to itself.
Página 71 - that the scope of all speculation is the performance of some action or thing to be done," and I have not any very great respect for, or interest in, mere knowing as such.
Página 149 - I had always heard it maintained by my father, and was myself convinced, that the object of education should be to form the strongest possible associations of the salutary class; associations of pleasure with all things beneficial to the great whole, and of pain with all things hurtful to it.
Página 116 - Johnson was much pleased with his answer, and we gave him a double fare. Dr. Johnson then turning to me, "Sir," said he, "a desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
Página 273 - ... argument, and finding in what part the fallacy lay: and though whatever capacity of this sort I attained was due to the fact that it was an intellectual exercise in which I was most perseveringly drilled by my father, yet it is also true that the school logic, and the mental habits acquired in studying it, were among the principal instruments of this drilling. I am persuaded that nothing, in modern education, tends so much, when properly used, to form exact thinkers, who attach a precise meaning...
Página 64 - It is virtue then, direct virtue, which is the hard and valuable part to be aimed at in education; and not a forward pertness, or any little arts of shifting. All other considerations and accomplishments should give way and be postponed to this. This is the solid and substantial good, which tutors should not only read lectures, and talk of; but the labour and art of education should furnish the mind with, and fasten there, and never cease till the young man had a true relish of it, and placed his...