How to Use Your Mind: A Psychology of Study; Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised StudyJ.B. Lippincott, 1910 - 215 páginas Educational leaders are seeing with increasing clearness the necessity of teaching students not only the subject-matter of study but also methods of study. Teachers are beginning to see that students waste a vast amount of time and form many harmful habits because they do not know how to use their minds. The recognition of this condition is taking the form of the movement toward "supervised study," which attempts to acquaint the student with principles of economy and directness in using his mind. It is generally agreed that there are certain "tricks" which make for mental efficiency, consisting of methods of apperceiving facts, methods of review, devices for arranging work. Some are the fruits of psychological experimentation; others are derived from experience. Many of them can be imparted by instruction, and it is for the purpose of systematizing these and making them available for students that this book is prepared. The evils of unintelligent and unsupervised study are evident to all who have any connection with modern education. They pervade the entire educational structure from kindergarten through college. In college they are especially apparent in the case of freshmen, who, in addition to the numerous difficulties incident to entrance into the college world, suffer peculiarly because they do not know how to attack the difficult subjects of the curriculum. In recognition of these conditions, special attention is given at The University of Chicago toward supervision of study. All freshmen in the School of Commerce and Administration of the University are given a course in Methods of Study, in which practical discussions and demonstrations are given regarding the ways of studying the freshman subjects. In addition to the group-work, cases presenting special features are given individual attention, for it must be admitted that while certain difficulties are common to all students, there are individual cases that present peculiar phases and these can be served only by personal consultations. These personal consultations are expensive both in time and patience, for it frequently happens that the mental habits of a student must be thoroughly reconstructed, and this requires much time and attention, but the results well repay the effort. A valuable accessory to such individual supervision over students has been found in the use of psychological tests which have been described by the author in a monograph entitled, "The Scientific Study of the College Student." |
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... terms , the nervous system is found to be composed of minute units of structure called nerve - cells or neurones . Each of these looks like a string frayed out at both ends , with a bulge some- 40 HOW TO USE YOUR MIND.
... neurones are as long as three feet ; others measure but a fraction of an inch in length . We do not know exactly how the mind , that part of us which feels , reasons and wills , is connected with this mass of cells called the nervous ...
... neurones never act singly ; they always act in groups , the nervous current passing from neurone to neurone . It is thought that the most important changes in the nervous system do not occur within the individual neu- rones , but at the ...
... neurone to another . We shall secure further light upon the action of the nervous system if we examine some of the properties belonging to nerve- cells . The first one is impressibility . Nerve - cells are very sensitive to impres ...
... neurone is stimulated at one end , it communicates its excitement , by means of the nervous current , to the next neurone or to neighboring neurones . Just as an electric current might pass along one wire , thence to another , and along ...