Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's IdealsH. Holt, 1899 - 301 páginas |
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... become a term to conjure up portentous ideas withal ; and you teachers , docile and receptive and aspiring as many of you are , have been plunged in an atmosphere of vague talk about our science , which to a great extent has been more ...
... become a term to conjure up portentous ideas withal ; and you teachers , docile and receptive and aspiring as many of you are , have been plunged in an atmosphere of vague talk about our science , which to a great extent has been more ...
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... become contributors to psychological science or to make psychological observations in a methodical or responsible man- ner . I fear that some of the enthusiasts for child- study have thrown a certain burden on you in this way . By all ...
... become contributors to psychological science or to make psychological observations in a methodical or responsible man- ner . I fear that some of the enthusiasts for child- study have thrown a certain burden on you in this way . By all ...
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... become the focus of your mental attention even while I am speak- ing , your mind , in short , may have wandered from the lecture ; and , in that case , the sensations of my face and voice , although not absolutely vanishing from your ...
... become the focus of your mental attention even while I am speak- ing , your mind , in short , may have wandered from the lecture ; and , in that case , the sensations of my face and voice , although not absolutely vanishing from your ...
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... simple point of view . The reasons why I call it so fundamental can be easily told . First , human and animal psychology thereby become less discontinuous . I know that to some of you this will hardly seem an attractive reason ,
... simple point of view . The reasons why I call it so fundamental can be easily told . First , human and animal psychology thereby become less discontinuous . I know that to some of you this will hardly seem an attractive reason ,
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... or definitely wrong . They give honesty ; for , when you express yourself by mak- ing things , and not by using words , it becomes impossible to dissimulate your vagueness or igno- rance by ambiguity . They beget a habit of self-
... or definitely wrong . They give honesty ; for , when you express yourself by mak- ing things , and not by using words , it becomes impossible to dissimulate your vagueness or igno- rance by ambiguity . They beget a habit of self-
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Página 77 - Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone.
Página 72 - I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use.
Página 244 - To every natural form, rock, fruit or flower, Even the loose stones that cover the high-way, I gave a moral life : I saw them feel, Or linked them to some feeling : the great mass Lay bedded in a quickening soul, and all That I beheld respired with inward meaning.
Página 77 - The drunken Rip Van Winkle, in Jefferson's play, excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, "I won't count this time!" Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve cells and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
Página 250 - The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening, The stretch afar growing dimmer and dimmer...
Página 245 - I had beheld — in front, The sea lay laughing at a distance; near, The solid mountains shone, bright as the clouds, Grain-tinctured, drenched in empyrean light; And in the meadows and the lower grounds Was all the sweetness of a common dawn — Dews, vapours, and the melody of birds, And labourers going forth to till the fields.
Página 257 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 67 - The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.
Página 249 - Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt, Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd...
Página 72 - The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.