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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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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
- How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- We live on the leash of our senses. — Diane Ackerman
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. — Francis Bacon