Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's IdealsH. Holt, 1899 - 301 páginas |
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... tion , so far I am sure they tend to do his intellect a service , even though they may leave unsatisfied a craving ( not altogether without its legitimate grounds ) for more nomenclature , head - lines , and subdivisions . Readers ...
... tion , so far I am sure they tend to do his intellect a service , even though they may leave unsatisfied a craving ( not altogether without its legitimate grounds ) for more nomenclature , head - lines , and subdivisions . Readers ...
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... tion , 172- The process of deliberation , 174- Why so few of our ideas result in acts , 176- The associationist account of the will , 177 — A balance of impulses and inhibitions , 178 - The - PAGE 144 155 169 CONTENTS over - impulsive ...
... tion , 172- The process of deliberation , 174- Why so few of our ideas result in acts , 176- The associationist account of the will , 177 — A balance of impulses and inhibitions , 178 - The - PAGE 144 155 169 CONTENTS over - impulsive ...
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... tion by a higher good , 194 — Conclusion , 195 - xi PAGE TALKS TO STUDENTS . I. THE GOSPEL OF RELAXATION . 199 II . ON A CERTAIN BLINDNESS IN HUMAN BEINGS 229 III . WHAT MAKES A LIFE SIGNIFICANT ? . 265 TALKS TO TEACHERS I. PSYCHOLOGY ...
... tion by a higher good , 194 — Conclusion , 195 - xi PAGE TALKS TO STUDENTS . I. THE GOSPEL OF RELAXATION . 199 II . ON A CERTAIN BLINDNESS IN HUMAN BEINGS 229 III . WHAT MAKES A LIFE SIGNIFICANT ? . 265 TALKS TO TEACHERS I. PSYCHOLOGY ...
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... all ideal directions . The outward organization of educa- tion which we have in our United States is per- haps , on the whole , the best organization that PSYCHOLOGY AND THE TEACHING ART The American educational organization,
... all ideal directions . The outward organization of educa- tion which we have in our United States is per- haps , on the whole , the best organization that PSYCHOLOGY AND THE TEACHING ART The American educational organization,
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... tion to the teacher's use . It is only the funda- mental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to the teacher ; and they , apart from the aforesaid theory of evolution , are very far from being new . I trust that you will ...
... tion to the teacher's use . It is only the funda- mental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to the teacher ; and they , apart from the aforesaid theory of evolution , are very far from being new . I trust that you will ...
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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.