The Mind and Its Education - George Herbert Betts

Extreme and long-continued fatigue is hostile to the development and welfare of any nervous system, and especially to that ...

disproved the supposition that students should be scantily fed. O'Shea claims that many brain workers are ...

Study groups of children for signs of deficiency in brain power from lack of nutrition. From fatigue. ...

CHAPTER V HABIT Habit is our "best friend or worst enemy." We are "walking bundles of habits." Habit is the "f ...

Even dead and inert matter obeys the same principles in this regard as does living matter. Says M. Leo ...

flower, which assails the nose of a child, the song of a bird, which strikes his ear, or the fleeting ...

governed by the lower nerve centers and taking care of itself, so to speak, without the interfer ...

punctuation do not take care of themselves will hardly make a success of writing. The mathematicia ...

The Habit of Attention.—It is a noble thing to be able to attend by sheer force of will when the in ...

victories all along the line. Habit the Foundation of Personality.—The biologist tells us that it is t ...

Habit Saves Worry and Rebellion.—Habit has been called the "balance wheel" of society. This is because ...

not so much because they feel that their way is best, but because it is easier than to change. Hence the ...

habits of neatness and order will hardly make a tidy housekeeper later in her life. Those who in youth ...

5. RULES FOR HABIT-FORMING James's Three Maxims for Habit-forming.—On the forming of new habits and the leaving off of ...

Select some act which you have recently begun to perform and watch it grow more and more habitual. No ...

CHAPTER VI SENSATION We can best understand the problems of sensation and perception if we first think of the ...

recognize? Or we pass our fingers over a piece of cloth and decide, "That is silk." But why, merely by p ...

origin. We know the process of digestion and assimilation, and the laws which govern them, although we do no ...

waves in the intervening air, ready to be translated through the machinery of nerves and brain into the beaut ...

the same general field, as of taste or vision, it is evident that there is a still more fundamental differ ...