Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's IdealsH. Holt, 1907 - 301 páginas |
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... seem least to relish is analytical technicality , and what they most care for is concrete practical application . So I have gradually weeded out the former , and left the latter unreduced ; and now , that I have at last written out the ...
... seem least to relish is analytical technicality , and what they most care for is concrete practical application . So I have gradually weeded out the former , and left the latter unreduced ; and now , that I have at last written out the ...
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... seem to some readers . It connects itself with a definite view of the world and of our 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 ...
... seem to some readers . It connects itself with a definite view of the world and of our 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 ...
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... ancient national doctrine of live and let live may prove to have a far deeper meaning than our people now seem to imagine it to possess . CAMBRIDGE , MASS . , March , 1899 . CONTENTS . TALKS TO TEACHERS . -- I. PSYCHOLOGY AND vi PREFACE.
... ancient national doctrine of live and let live may prove to have a far deeper meaning than our people now seem to imagine it to possess . CAMBRIDGE , MASS . , March , 1899 . CONTENTS . TALKS TO TEACHERS . -- I. PSYCHOLOGY AND vi PREFACE.
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... seem too often to entail ) , all these things ( to say nothing of that coeducation of the sexes in whose benefits so many of us heartily believe ) , all these things , I say , are most happy features of our scholastic life , and from ...
... seem too often to entail ) , all these things ( to say nothing of that coeducation of the sexes in whose benefits so many of us heartily believe ) , all these things , I say , are most happy features of our scholastic life , and from ...
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... seem as if there were a certain fatality of mystifi- cation laid upon the teachers of our day . The mat- ter of their profession , compact enough in itself , has to be frothed up for them in journals and insti- tutes , till its outlines ...
... seem as if there were a certain fatality of mystifi- cation laid upon the teachers of our day . The mat- ter of their profession , compact enough in itself , has to be frothed up for them in journals and insti- tutes , till its outlines ...
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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