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... thinking . Analogy between a plant and a child . What is it we compare ? A potato , its parts . Aptness in growth . The sensitive plant . Spon- taneous action gives aptness . Inherited aptness . Logical descriptions . Antecedent and ...
... thinking . Analogy between a plant and a child . What is it we compare ? A potato , its parts . Aptness in growth . The sensitive plant . Spon- taneous action gives aptness . Inherited aptness . Logical descriptions . Antecedent and ...
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... thinking . Reading new work . Mental action and movement . Deductions from the hypothesis . Extent of vocabulary . Formula . Vague thoughts are exhausting . Spontaneous thinking and moving . A fidgetty child . Nervous imaginative ...
... thinking . Reading new work . Mental action and movement . Deductions from the hypothesis . Extent of vocabulary . Formula . Vague thoughts are exhausting . Spontaneous thinking and moving . A fidgetty child . Nervous imaginative ...
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... thinking differ . Teaching by sight and by words . Logic taught in object lessons . The seen and the unseen . Mental states . Child's condition inherited from parent ; inherited tendency to headaches . Cultivate precision . Drilling ...
... thinking differ . Teaching by sight and by words . Logic taught in object lessons . The seen and the unseen . Mental states . Child's condition inherited from parent ; inherited tendency to headaches . Cultivate precision . Drilling ...
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... thinking . Education saves future brain wear . Parents and teachers . School reports . Inspection of schools . Committee of British Medical Association ; their Report on children in schools . Visible indications of development ; nerve ...
... thinking . Education saves future brain wear . Parents and teachers . School reports . Inspection of schools . Committee of British Medical Association ; their Report on children in schools . Visible indications of development ; nerve ...
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... thinking . In the infant , before birth , conditions of development occur which cannot proceed after birth , e.g. closure of certain openings and fissures . An ovule of the flower is a cellular body , it has but a small capacity for ...
... thinking . In the infant , before birth , conditions of development occur which cannot proceed after birth , e.g. closure of certain openings and fissures . An ovule of the flower is a cellular body , it has but a small capacity for ...
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