Psychology in Education; Designed as a Text-book, and for the Use of the General ReaderAmerican Book Company, 1895 - 312 páginas |
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acquisition action activity æsthetic afferent nerve animals arithmetic aroused assimilation asso association attention beautiful become bodily body brain called cation cause CHAPTER character child classified concepts conscience consciousness country teacher cultivated dangerous Danger defined definition desire direct effective emotions enthymeme ethical exercises experience expression expressional facts faculty feeling give given growth habits ideas illustrate imagination impulse incisors individual induction intellectual interest judgment kind kindergarten knowledge language lesson logical manifested matter means memory ment mental method metic mind moral motive muscles muscular nature nerve nerve tissue normal objects observation organs outline perceive percepts phenomena physical physiology polygon psychology pupils questions readily reading recitation reflex action relations riences Roark Psych sense student syllogism taste taught teacher teaching text-book things thought tion tivate true vidual visual percept words zoölogy
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Página 228 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Página 200 - One is fortified against the acceptance of unreasonable propositions only by skill in determining facts through observation and experience, by practice in comparing facts or groups of facts, and by the unvarying habit of questioning and verifying allegations, and of distinguishing between facts and inferences from facts, and between a true cause and an antecedent event.
Página 239 - It is a fundamental idea in this report that the study of every other subject should contribute to the pupil's training in English ; and that the pupil's capacity to write English should be made available, and be developed, in every other department.
Página 150 - The essential achievement of the will, in short, when it is most 'voluntary' ', is to attend to a difficult object and hold it fast before the mind.
Página 198 - ... centuries to accumulate facts enough to establish a just inference or generalization — the earlier accumulations may be insufficient, the first grouping wrong, or the first samplings deceptive — and so the first general inference may be incorrect; but the method, rightly understood and practised, leads straight to truth. It is the patient, candid, impartial, universal method of modern science.
Página 14 - In spite of ethical and theological differences, we agree to say that education seeks, by social stimulus, guidance, and control, to develop the natural powers of the child, so as to render him able and disposed to lead a healthy, happy, and morally worthy life.
Página 37 - We conclude, then, from the previous considerations: the subject of all the states of consciousness is a real unit-being, called Mind; which is of non-material nature, and acts and develops according to laws of its own, but is specially correlated with certain material molecules and masses forming the substance of the Brain.
Página 299 - I do claim that one of the best results of this sort of work is the eft'ect upon the teacher's own life and methods of instruction, freshening him and keeping him in loving, conscious contact with the. child he is endeavoring to lead. To...
Página 13 - This work is the outcome of many years' practical " teaching of teachers." Professor Roark conceives right education to be such a preparation of the individual in physical, intellectual, and moral capacities as will enable him to secure the highest enjoyment from their use here and hereafter.
Página 275 - The denominator shows the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.