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Attention Quotes by William James
- From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with…
- All that we need explicitly to note is that, the more the passive attention is relied on, by keeping the material interesting; and the less…
- The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and…
- The function of ignoring, of inattention, is as vital a factor in mental progress as the function of attention itself.
- A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He…
- The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which…
- The education of attention would be an education par excellence
- So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like…
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