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- To know psychology, therefore, is absolutely no guarantee that we shall be good teacher.
- There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire,…
- Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life
- No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
- Habit is second nature, or rather . . . ten times nature.
- We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into…
- It is astonishing how many mental operations we can explain when we have once grasped the principles of association
- The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of…
- Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects…
- An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total.
- The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes…
- 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…
- The difference between an interesting and a tedious teacher consists in little more than the inventiveness by which the one is able to mediate these…
- If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain…
- 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…
- But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst…
- If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
- An educated memory depends on an organized system of associations; and its goodness depends on two of their peculiarities: first, on the persistency of the…
- Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
- In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
- The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's,…
- Be patient and sympathetic with the type of mind that cuts a poor figure in examinations. It may, in the long examination which life sets…
- In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at…
- Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
- The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,…
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- Journalism is literature in a hurry. — Matthew Arnold
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose. — Margaret Atwood
- The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth. — Margaret Atwood
- Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard. — Margaret Atwood
- I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply… — Margaret Atwood
- Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. — Russell Baker
- There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of… — Russell Baker
- Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century. — J. G. Ballard
- It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville