Habit in its simplest form is the tendency to do, think, or act as one has done, thought, or acted in the past. t is the tendency to repeat activities of all kinds. t is the tenden...
There is no sharp distinction between habit and memory. Both are governed by the general laws of association. They shade off into each other, and what one might call habit another...
Attention is a function of consciousness. Wherever consciousness is, attention must perforce be present. One cannot exist without the other. According to most psychologists, the te...
The term "thinking" has been used almost as loosely as the term "imagination," and used to mean almost as many different things. Even now there is no consensus of opinion as to jus...
After deciding upon the aims of education, the goals towards which all teaching must strive, the fundamental question to be answered is, "What have we to work with?" "What is the m...
All human activity might be classified under three heads,--play, work, and drudgery,--but just what activities belong under each head and just what each of the terms means are ques...
magination is governed by the same general laws of association which control habit and memory. n these two former topics the emphasis was upon getting a desired result without any...
t has been indicated here and there throughout the previous chapters that, despite the fact that there are certain laws governing the various mental traits and processes, still the...
The term study has been used very loosely by both teachers and children. As used by teachers it frequently meant something very different from what children had in mind when they u...
Appreciation belongs to the general field of feeling rather than that of knowing. The element which distinguishes appreciation from memory or imagination or perception is an affect...
Morality has been defined in many ways. t has been called "a regulation and control of immediate promptings of impulses in conformity with some prescribed conduct"; as "the organiz...
Education is a group enterprise. We establish schools in which we seek to develop whatever capacities or abilities the individual may possess in order that he may become intelligen...
The exercises which teachers conduct in their classrooms do not commonly involve a single type of mental activity. t is true, however, that certain lessons tend to involve one type...
Formal discipline or transfer of training concerns itself with the question as to how far training in one subject, along one line, influences other lines. How far, for instance, tr...