Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's IdealsH. Holt, 1899 - 301 páginas |
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... begin this very hour to set the matter right . In Professor Bain's chapter on The Moral Habits ' there are some admirable practical re- marks laid down . Two great maxims emerge from the treatment . The first is that in the ac ...
... begin this very hour to set the matter right . In Professor Bain's chapter on The Moral Habits ' there are some admirable practical re- marks laid down . Two great maxims emerge from the treatment . The first is that in the ac ...
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... begin to - day . We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort . We postpone and postpone , until those smiling possibilities are dead . Whereas ten minutes a day of poetry , of spiritual ...
... begin to - day . We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort . We postpone and postpone , until those smiling possibilities are dead . Whereas ten minutes a day of poetry , of spiritual ...
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... begin to be effective the others seem to get siphoned out , as it were , and left behind . Seldom , however , as in our ex- ample , does the process seem to turn round a single item in the mental field , or even round the entire field ...
... begin to be effective the others seem to get siphoned out , as it were , and left behind . Seldom , however , as in our ex- ample , does the process seem to turn round a single item in the mental field , or even round the entire field ...
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... to follow in keeping the attention of the child : Begin with the line of his native interests , and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with - these . The kindergarten methods , the object- teaching.
... to follow in keeping the attention of the child : Begin with the line of his native interests , and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with - these . The kindergarten methods , the object- teaching.
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... begin to talk . That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in them- selves , and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them ...
... begin to talk . That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in them- selves , and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them ...
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abstract acquired action apperceiving apperception asso association association of ideas become behavior blindness brain character Chautauqua child child-study conceptions concrete conduct connection coruscate effect effort emotional example excited experience eyes fact faculty feel field of consciousness habit heart hour human ideal imitation immediately impression impulse inhibition inner instinct keep kind labor laws learning lives margin matter mean memory mental methods mind MIND-WANDERING moral motor effects musical scale natively interesting nature ness never Obermann object one's passion pedagogics Phillips Brooks possible practical psychology pupils reaction remember RICHARD JEFFERIES rience schoolroom sensation sense significance sorb sort Spinoza stream of consciousness talk teacher tendencies things thought tical tion Tolstoï truth uncon verbal virtue voluntary attention WALT WHITMAN whole wish words
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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.