The Mind and Its Education - George Herbert Betts

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Mind and Its Education, by George Herbert Betts This eBook is for the use of an ...

REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1906, 1916, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Print ...

subject matter is made concrete and practical by the use of many illustrations and through application t ...

CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE MIND, OR CONSCIOUSNESS How the mind is to be known: Personal character of consc ...

CHAPTER III THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM The relations of mind and brain: Interaction of mind and brain —The ...

form habits. 2. The place of habit in the economy of our lives: Habit increases skill and efficiency—Habit ...

observation and introspection 98 CHAPTER VIII MENTAL IMAGES AND IDEAS The part played by past experience: Present t ...

introspection 127 CHAPTER X ASSOCIATION The nature of association: The neural basis of association— Association the ...

THINKING Different types of thinking: Chance, or idle thinking— Uncritical belief—Assimilative thinking—Deliber ...

CHAPTER XIV FEELING AND ITS FUNCTIONS The nature of feeling: The different feeling qualities—Feeling always prese ...

the end versus interest in the activity—Indirect interest as a motive—Indirect interest alone insuffici ...

Limitations of expression. The place of expression in development: Intellectual value of expression—Moral ...

THE MIND AND ITS EDUCATION ...

CHAPTER I THE MIND, OR CONSCIOUSNESS We are to study the mind and its education; but how? It is easy to und ...

Introspection the Only Means of Discovering Nature of Consciousness.— What, then, is mind? What is the thin ...

Learning to Interpret Expression.—If I would understand the workings of your mind I must therefore ...

but the process is always present. Consciousness is like a stream, which, so far as we are concerned with ...

is not level, but is broken by a wave which stands above the rest; which is but another way of saying that ...

FIG. Consciousness Likened to a Field.—The consciousness of any moment has been less happily likened to a ...