A Study of a ChildHarper & Bros., 1898 - Počet stran: 219 |
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Strana 3 - ... existed in it from the beginning. We were designed in the cradle, perhaps earlier, and it is in finding out this design, and shaping ourselves to it, that our years are spent wisely. It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.
Strana vii - I feel nearly sure we are sailing carefully, but with energy, in exactly the same direction. I think the wish I mentioned will soon be fulfilled by you to my heart's content. Mind you do not go too deep into psychology — controversies would spoil the effect of your observations, which in many cases may serve as a practical guide, without any commentary.
Strana 3 - The business of psychological educators is much more concerned with the habits that children may acquire, and with their wills, which are also developed by habitual practice, than with the development of their moral conscience. The latter is the blossom which will be followed by fruit; but the former are the roots and branches.
Strana 7 - Pestalozzian principle of letting alone with unconscious supervision, in a carefully guarded environment which supplied a great number of centres of interest that were full of indirect suggestion. No formal teaching of any kind was allowed until the end of the sixth year, but all questions were carefully answered, and effort was made to see that the answers were clearly understood. Servants were instructed to refer him to his parents for answers to all questions they did not themselves comprehend,...
Strana 5 - ... noted in relation to the child in question. In view of the fact that children as well as their environments differ very widely, he says we need to know much more about these variations, that there is no substitute for the careful, methodical study of the individual child, and that the co-operation of the mother is indispensable, as the knowledge of others never equals that of the mother. He predicts that women will become valuable laborers in this new field of investigation if they will only...
Strana 183 - As soon as the cat had lapped up the milk, the cat began to kill the rat; the rat began to gnaw the rope; the rope began to hang the butcher; the butcher began to kill the ox; the ox began to drink the water; the water began to quench the fire; the fire began to burn the stick; the stick began to beat the dog; the dog began to bite the pig; the...
Strana 11 - ... transubstantiation, to make it a vital part of his own thought. But glaring as are our sins of commission, they pale before our sins of omission; for while we are forcing upon the child's mind knowledge which has no roots in his experience, or...