Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's IdealsH. Holt, 1900 - 301 páginas |
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... moral relations to the same . Those who have done me the honor of reading my volume of philosophic essays will recognize that I mean the pluralistic or individualistic philosophy . According to that philos- ophy , the truth is too great ...
... moral relations to the same . Those who have done me the honor of reading my volume of philosophic essays will recognize that I mean the pluralistic or individualistic philosophy . According to that philos- ophy , the truth is too great ...
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... moral and intellect- ual . And this tone is a mere tradition kept up by imitation , due in the first instance to the example set by teachers and by previous pupils of an ag gressive and dominating type , copied by the others , and ...
... moral and intellect- ual . And this tone is a mere tradition kept up by imitation , due in the first instance to the example set by teachers and by previous pupils of an ag gressive and dominating type , copied by the others , and ...
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... moral faculties . A victory scored under such con- ditions becomes a turning - point and crisis of his character . It represents the high - water mark of his powers , and serves thereafter as an ideal pat- tern for his self - imitation ...
... moral faculties . A victory scored under such con- ditions becomes a turning - point and crisis of his character . It represents the high - water mark of his powers , and serves thereafter as an ideal pat- tern for his self - imitation ...
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... 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- quisition of a new habit , or the leaving off of an old one , we must take care to launch ...
... 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- quisition of a new habit , or the leaving off of an old one , we must take care to launch ...
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... moral habits , contradis- tinguishing them from the intellectual acquisi- tions , is the presence of two hostile powers , one to be gradually raised into the ascendant over the other . It is necessary above all things , in such a ...
... moral habits , contradis- tinguishing them from the intellectual acquisi- tions , is the presence of two hostile powers , one to be gradually raised into the ascendant over the other . It is necessary above all things , in such a ...
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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 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
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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