A Text-book in the Principles of EducationMacmillan, 1910 - 593 pages |
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¹ Compare action system activity adaptation adjustment æsthetic animals associations attitude becomes cation central nervous system child cognition conception consciousness conservatism coöperation coördinations critical cultivation dependent differentiation discipline effect efficiency emotion enables endeavor environment especially evolution experience experimentation fact factors favor feeling fosterage function habits hand Hence Herbart Herbartians hereditary human ideal ideas ideational readjustment imitation important impulses indeterminately variable individual infancy inheritance instinctive acts intelligence interest involves judgment justment logical material means memory ment mental merely methods mind movements natural selection organism orthogenesis parent perception personal culture phase physiological play power to learn practice principle Principles of Psychology problem Professor Psychology reaction reason recapitulation rejuvenation reproduction result SECTION self-realization sense situation social control social heredity society specific stimulus synapsis teacher teleology tendency theory things thought tion tive Total recall utility variable variation vocation
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Page 17 - How to live?— that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is— the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances. In what way to treat the body; in what way to treat the mind; in what way to manage our affairs; in what way to bring up a family; in what way to behave as a citizen; in what way to utilize all those sources of happiness which nature supplies—...
Page 8 - But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching.
Page 173 - There is a happy moment for fixing skill in drawing, for making boys collectors in natural history, and presently dissectors and botanists; then for initiating them into the harmonies of mechanics and the wonders of physical and chemical law.
Page 20 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page 11 - I hear it is said, that children should be employed in getting things by heart, to exercise and improve their memories. I could wish this were said with as much authority of reason, as it is with forwardness of assurance; and that this practice were established upon good observation, more than old custom; for it is evident, that strength of memory is owing to a happy constitution, and not to any habitual improvement got by exercise.
Page 10 - The business of education, as I have already observed, is not, as I think, to make them perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
Page 8 - ... those people who have at any time been most industrious after wisdom ; so that language is but the instrument conveying to us things useful to lie known. And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into,* yet if he have not . studied the solid things in them, as well as the words...
Page 175 - ... be so organized and directed as to be far more truly humanistic and liberal than all that the best modern school can provide. Rudimentary organs of the soul now suppressed, perverted, or delayed, to crop out in menacing forms later, would be developed in their season so that we should be immune to them in maturer years, on the principle of the Aristotelian catharsis for which I have tried to suggest a far broader application than the Stagirite could see in his day.