How to Secure and Retain Attention

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C.W. Bardeen, publisher, 1884 - 97 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 15 - ... 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.
Σελίδα 51 - But of all the changes taking place, the most significant is the growing desire to make the acquirement of knowledge pleasurable rather than painful — a desire based on the more or less distinct perception, that at each age the intellectual action which a child likes is a healthful one for it ; and conversely.
Σελίδα 96 - My dooty tords my nabers, to love him as thyself, and to do to all men as I wed thou shall do and to me, to love, onner, and suke my farther and mother, to onner and to bay the Queen, and all that are pet in a forty under her, to smit myself to all my gooness...
Σελίδα 60 - ... therefore distasteful to it. Finding that it will not voluntarily acquire these facts, we thrust them into its mind by force of threats and punishment. By thus denying the knowledge it craves, and cramming it with knowledge it cannot digest, we produce a morbid state of its faculties ; and a consequent disgust for knowledge in general.
Σελίδα 57 - ... incompletely conformed to by the emotional nature, yet by the intellectual nature, or at least by those parts of it which the child exhibits, this law is almost wholly conformed to. The repugnances to this and that study which vex the ordinary teacher, are not innate, but result from his unwise system. Fellenberg says, " Experience has taught me that indolence in young persons is so directly opposite to their natural disposition to activity, that unless it u the consequence of bad education,...
Σελίδα 51 - As a final test by which to judge any plan of culture, should come the question, — Does it create a pleasurable excitement in the pupils? When in doubt whether a particular mode or arrangement is or is not more in harmony with the foregoing principles than some other, we may safely abide by this criterion.
Σελίδα 51 - ... one for it; and conversely. There is a spreading opinion that the rise of an appetite for any kind of knowledge implies that the unfolding mind has become fit to assimilate it, and needs it for the purposes of growth; and that on the other hand, the disgust felt towards...
Σελίδα 60 - ... punishment. By thus denying the knowledge it craves, and cramming it with knowledge it cannot digest, we produce a morbid state of its faculties, and a consequent disgust for knowledge in general. And when, as a result, partly of the stolid indolence we have brought on, and partly of still-continued unfitness...
Σελίδα 77 - A child who does not hear distinctly cannot judge well of sounds; and, if we could suppose the sense of touch to be twice as accurate in one child as in another, we might conclude that the judgment of these children must differ in a similar proportion. The defects in organization are not within the power of the preceptor; but we may observe that inattention and want of exercise are frequently the...

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