Psychology Applied to Education: A Series of Lectures on the Theory & Practice of Education

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University Press, 1926 - 188 páginas
 

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Página 99 - ... the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Página 172 - The philosopher should be a man willing to listen to every suggestion, but determined to judge for himself. He should not be biased by appearances; have no favorite hypothesis ; be of no school ; and in doctrine have no master. He should not be a respecter of persons, but of things. Truth should be his primary object. If to these qualities be added industry, he may indeed hope to walk within the veil of the temple of nature.
Página 166 - Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done; peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct are shunned equally with crimes, until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow: their human capacities are withered and starved; they become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without either...
Página 166 - I do not mean that they choose what is customary, in preference to what suits their own inclination. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary.
Página 180 - Live thou, and of the grain and husk, the grape And ivyberry, choose ; and still depart From death to death thro' life and life, and find Nearer and ever nearer Him who wrought Not Matter, nor the finite-infinite, But this main miracle, that thou art thou, With power on thine own act and on the world.
Página 166 - ... what do I prefer? or, what would suit my character and disposition? or, what would allow the best and highest in me to have fair play, and enable it to 77 grow and thrive? They ask themselves, what is suitable to my position? what is usually done by persons of my station and pecuniary circumstances?
Página 132 - For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
Página 99 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again...
Página 102 - The next remove must be to the study of politics; to know the beginning, end, and reasons of political societies; that they may not in a dangerous fit of the commonwealth be such poor, shaken, uncertain reeds, of such a tottering conscience, as many of our great counsellors have lately shown themselves, but steadfast pillars of the state.
Página 37 - ... will, of his whole nature. There is in man a hungering after knowledge, after truth, after certainty. And yet there is nothing but uncertainty. What Goethe says in Faust, is no rash exaggeration. There is in each of us something of this insatiable hunger after knowledge, this longing to ' Recognise the hidden ties That bind creation's inmost energies ; Her vital powers her embryo seeds survey, And fling the trade in empty words away.'* Yet are we also compelled to add : ' That we in truth can...

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