The Herbartian Psychology Applied to Education: Being a Series of Essays Applying the Psychology of Johann Friedrich Herbart |
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Page 31 - hypnotic suggestion may act without the formality of the trance, and what Guyau wants us to do is to apply this principle in dealing with our pupils. If he is to be believed, " They'll take suggestion as a cat laps milk; They'll tell the clock to any business that We say befits the hour.
Page 254 - the bodily changes follow directly the perception of the exciting fact, and that our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion. Common sense says: 'We lose our fortune, are sorry, and weep.'
Page 156 - Do you see that cloud that's almost in shape like a camel ? Polonius. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet. Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius. It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet. Or like a whale ? Polonius. Very like a whale?
Page 255 - If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no mind-stuff out of which the emotions can be constituted, and that a cold and neutral state of. intellectual perception is all that remains.
Page 3 - Behold human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light, and reaching all along the den: here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind
Page 211 - A little Cyclops, with one eye Staring to threaten and defy, That thought comes next — and instantly The freak is over, The shape will vanish — and behold A silver shield with boss of gold, That spreads itself, some faery bold In fight to cover.
Page 36 - I presume that it will be easily granted 'me that there are such ideas in men's minds. Everyone is conscious of them in himself; and men's words and actions will satisfy him that they are in others. " Our first inquiry, then, shall be how they
Page 10 - concluded that Tom's brain, being peculiarly impervious to etymology and demonstration, was peculiarly in need of being ploughed and harrowed by these patent implements. It was his favourite metaphor, that the classics and geometry constituted that culture of the mind which prepared it for the reception of any subsequent crop.
Page 142 - letter, since I sat opposite to you all morning. I see also in your open desk there that you have a sheet of stamps and a thick bundle of post-cards. What could you go into the post-office for, then, but to send a wire ? Eliminate all other factors, and the one which remains must be the truth.'
Page 119 - Thus addressing his new pupil, Mr. Sikes pulled off Oliver's cap and threw it into a corner; and then, taking him by the shoulder, sat himself down by the table, and stood the boy in front of him. " ' Now, first: do you know wot this is ?