Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's IdealsH. Holt, 1899 - 301 páginas |
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... , and will affect your standing in their eyes . We cannot escape our destiny , which is practical ; and even our most theoretic faculties contribute to its working out . As These few reasons will perhaps smooth the way for.
... , and will affect your standing in their eyes . We cannot escape our destiny , which is practical ; and even our most theoretic faculties contribute to its working out . As These few reasons will perhaps smooth the way for.
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... words we have spoken , feel our own blow as we give it , or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct . Now this re- MARKS AND STANDING 37 turn wave of impression pertains to 36 TALKS TO TEACHERS.
... words we have spoken , feel our own blow as we give it , or read in the bystander's eyes the success or failure of our conduct . Now this re- MARKS AND STANDING 37 turn wave of impression pertains to 36 TALKS TO TEACHERS.
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... standing ' and other returns of result are concealed , the pupil is frustrated of this natural termination of the cycle of his activities , and often suffers from the sense of incompleteness and un- certainty ; and there are persons who ...
... standing ' and other returns of result are concealed , the pupil is frustrated of this natural termination of the cycle of his activities , and often suffers from the sense of incompleteness and un- certainty ; and there are persons who ...
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... stand is the native reactive tendencies , the im- pulses and instincts of childhood , so as to be able to substitute one for another , and turn them on to artificial objects . It is often said that man is distinguished from the lower ...
... stand is the native reactive tendencies , the im- pulses and instincts of childhood , so as to be able to substitute one for another , and turn them on to artificial objects . It is often said that man is distinguished from the lower ...
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... stands , as it were , out of the pale , and feels that he stands so ; and often suffers a kind of melancholy from which he might have been res- cued by a more real education . There are other impulses , such as love of appro- bation or ...
... stands , as it were , out of the pale , and feels that he stands so ; and often suffers a kind of melancholy from which he might have been res- cued by a more real education . There are other impulses , such as love of appro- bation or ...
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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.