The Art of Study: A Manual for Teachers and Students of the Science and the Art of Teaching |
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acquired active attention Alcibiades Alexander Bain answer apperception Appleton apply arithmetic art of study B. A. Hinsdale become begins called Chap chapter child Comenius consciousness cultivation D. C. Heath deduction Dictionary discipline elementary elements example experience fact faculties feeling formal Frederic Harrison German give habit Herbart Herbartians Horace Mann ideas important induction inference instruction intellectual interest involves John Locke judgment knowl knowledge language lesson literature matter means ment mental method metic moral nature never object observation oral passive attention pedagogy perhaps persons practical preparation present proposition Psychology pupil pupil's mind question recitation regimen relation Ribot rules schoolroom sense Sir William Hamilton stage student study-lesson study-recitation syllogism taught teacher teaching tention text-book things thought Thoughts Concerning Education tion voluntary attention wholly word York York American
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Page 207 - He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
Page 60 - Pythagoras' theorem states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.
Page 244 - This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections; unless we chew them over again, they will not give us strength and nourishment.
Page 155 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel ; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Page 162 - It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, never to lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right. The essential precaution, therefore, is so to regulate the two opposing powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes, until repetition has fortified it to such a degree as to enable it to cope with the opposition, under any circumstances. This is the theoretically best career of mental progress.
Page 193 - ... being the direct result of the want of Volitional control over the automatic activity of the Brain. To punish a child for the want of obedience which it has not the power to render, is to inflict an injury which may almost be said to be irreparable.
Page 112 - Thus, the difference between an ordinary mind and the mind of a Newton, consists principally in this, that the one is capable of the application of a more continuous attention than the other, — that a Newton is able without fatigue to connect inference with inference in one long series towards a determinate end; while the man of inferior capacity is soon obliged to break or let fall the thread which he had begun to spin.
Page 162 - The peculiarity of the moral habits, contradistinguishing them from the intellectual acquisitions, is the presence of two hostile powers, one to be gradually raised into the ascendant over the other. It is necessary, above all things, in such a situation, never to lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right.
Page 113 - Socrates is ever wont to do, when his mind is occupied with inquiries in which there are difficulties to be overcome. He then never interrupts his meditation, and forgets to eat, and drink, and sleep, — everything, in short, until his inquiry has reached its termination, or, at least, until he has seen some light in it...
Page 193 - strong-minded' Teachers who object to these modes of 'making things pleasant,' as an unworthy and undesirable 'weakness,' are ignorant that in this stage of the child-mind, the Will — that is, the power of...