Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's IdealsH. Holt, 1900 - 301 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 27
Página 13
... abstract and analytic . Although some of us may conjoin the attitudes successfully , in most of us they must conflict . The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her pro- fession because she ...
... abstract and analytic . Although some of us may conjoin the attitudes successfully , in most of us they must conflict . The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her pro- fession because she ...
Página 16
... abstract , general , and conjectural terms . On the other hand , if we should say that they are due to a spiritual being called our Soul , which reacts on our brain states by these peculiar forms of spiritual energy , our words would be ...
... abstract , general , and conjectural terms . On the other hand , if we should say that they are due to a spiritual being called our Soul , which reacts on our brain states by these peculiar forms of spiritual energy , our words would be ...
Página 19
... abstract thought , of volition , and the like . * Vague and hazy as such an account of our stream of consciousness may be , it is at least se- cure from positive error and free from admixture of conjecture or hypothesis . An influential ...
... abstract thought , of volition , and the like . * Vague and hazy as such an account of our stream of consciousness may be , it is at least se- cure from positive error and free from admixture of conjecture or hypothesis . An influential ...
Página 26
... be- havior and our adaptation to the environment than at first sight might appear . No truth , however abstract , is ever perceived , that will not probably ALL CONSCIOUSNESS LEADS TO ACTION 27 It at some time 26 TALKS TO TEACHERS.
... be- havior and our adaptation to the environment than at first sight might appear . No truth , however abstract , is ever perceived , that will not probably ALL CONSCIOUSNESS LEADS TO ACTION 27 It at some time 26 TALKS TO TEACHERS.
Página 29
... abstract conceptions which he has acquired , from circumstances in which he never was placed before . Education , in short , cannot be better described than by calling it the organiza- tion of acquired habits of conduct and tendencies ...
... abstract conceptions which he has acquired , from circumstances in which he never was placed before . Education , in short , cannot be better described than by calling it the organiza- tion of acquired habits of conduct and tendencies ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
abstract acquired action apperceiving apperception asso association association of ideas become behavior blindness brain character Chautauqua child child-study conceptions concrete conduct connection coruscate 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 learned lives margin matter mean memory mental methods mind MIND-WANDERING moral motor effects musical scale natively interesting nature ness never objects one's passion pedagogics Phillips Brooks possible practical psychology pupils reaction REFLEX ACTION remember RICHARD JEFFERIES rience schoolroom sensation sense significance sorb sort Spinoza stream of consciousness talk teacher tendencies things thought tical tion Tolstoi truth uncon verbal virtue voluntary attention WALT WHITMAN whole wish words
Pasajes populares
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 78 - As we become permanent drunkards by so many separate drinks, so we become saints in the moral, and authorities and experts in the practical and scientific spheres, by so many separate acts and hours of work.
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 245 - Ah ! need I say, dear Friend ! that to the brim My heart was full; I made no vows, but vows Were then made for me ; bond unknown to me Was given, that I should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated Spirit.
Página 250 - The large and small steamers in motion, the pilots in their pilot-houses, The white wake left by the passage, the quick tremulous whirl of the wheels, The flags of all nations, the falling of them at sunset, The scallop-edged waves in the twilight, the ladled cups, the frolicsome crests and glistening...
Página 78 - Silently, between all the details of his business, the power of judging in all that class of matter will have built itself up within him as a possession that will never pass away. Young people should know this truth in advance. The ignorance of it has probably engendered more discouragement and faint-heartedness in youths embarking on arduous careers than all other causes put together.
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 72 - 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 alive through use.
Página 237 - It is said that a poet has died young in the breast of the most stolid. It may be contended, rather, that this (somewhat minor) bard in almost every case survives, and is the spice of life to his possessor.
Página 69 - Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new "set