Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's IdealsH. Holt, 1907 - 301 páginas |
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... course , which has since then been delivered at various places to various teacher - audi- ences . I have found by experience that what my hearers seem least to relish is analytical technicality , and what they most care for is concrete ...
... course , which has since then been delivered at various places to various teacher - audi- ences . I have found by experience that what my hearers seem least to relish is analytical technicality , and what they most care for is concrete ...
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... course their special forms are determined by our past experiences and education . But , if we ask just how the brain con- ditions them , we have not the remotest inkling of an answer to give ; and , if we ask just how the education ...
... course their special forms are determined by our past experiences and education . But , if we ask just how the brain con- ditions them , we have not the remotest inkling of an answer to give ; and , if we ask just how the education ...
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... course of lectures , the biological conception , as thus expressed , and to lay your own emphasis on the fact that man , whatever else he may be , is primarily a practical being , whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this ...
... course of lectures , the biological conception , as thus expressed , and to lay your own emphasis on the fact that man , whatever else he may be , is primarily a practical being , whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this ...
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... course , here as elsewhere , concrete experience must prevail over psychological deduction . But , so far as our psychological deduction goes , it would suggest that the pupil's eagerness to know how well he does is in the line of his ...
... course , here as elsewhere , concrete experience must prevail over psychological deduction . But , so far as our psychological deduction goes , it would suggest that the pupil's eagerness to know how well he does is in the line of his ...
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... course , has not the marvellous egg - laying instincts which some articulates have ; but , if we compare him with the mammalia , we are forced to confess that he is appealed to by a much larger array of objects than any other mammal ...
... course , has not the marvellous egg - laying instincts which some articulates have ; but , if we compare him with the mammalia , we are forced to confess that he is appealed to by a much larger array of objects than any other mammal ...
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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 habits heart hour human ideal imitation immediately impression impulse inhibition inner instinct keep kind labor laws learned lives margin matter meaning memory mental methods mind MIND-WANDERING moral motor effects musical scale natively interesting nature ness never Obermann objects one's passion pedagogics Phillips Brooks possible practical psychology pupils reaction remember RICHARD JEFFERIES rience schoolroom secret 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 153 - For should he find us in the glen, My blood would stain the heather. "His horsemen hard behind us ride; Should they our steps discover, Then who will cheer my bonny bride, When they have slain her lover?
Página 248 - FLOOD-TIDE below me! I see you face to face! Clouds of the west— sun there half an hour high— I see you also face to face. Crowds of men and women attired in the usual costumes, how curious you are to me! On the ferry-boats the hundreds and hundreds that cross, returning home, are more curious to me than you suppose, And you that shall cross from shore to shore years hence are more to me, and more in my meditations, than you might suppose.
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 - 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 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 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 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 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 77 - 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...
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