The Mind and Its Education - George Herbert Betts

All are familiar with the "five senses" of our elementary physiologies, sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch ...

carried to the brain by the auditory nerve. The sensation of hearing, like that of sight, gives us two q ...

qualities the sense of smell is capable of revealing. The only definite classification of smell q ...

FIG. 17.—Diagram showing distribution of hot and cold spots on the back of the hand. C, cold spots; H, hot ...

that show defects of vision or hearing. What are the symptoms? What is the effect of inability to hear ...

CHAPTER VII PERCEPTION No young child at first sees objects as we see them, or hears sounds as we hear the ...

the ancient scholars conceived the earth to be a sphere, and Columbus discovered America. The Probl ...

have to follow a little later when he goes to school and learns that "A ball is a spherical body ...

is also illustrated in the common statement that what one gets from an art exhibit or a concert depends ...

to say, "That tree is ten rods distant." Form and size are to be learned in the same way. The ha ...

shows the detail of the bark and leaves, while the more distant one lacks this detail. The nearer tree also ...

of passing time that we call the immediate present consists of the recognition of the succession of these p ...

them, and looked at him with mild curiosity. But, after standing before them for a few moments, he ...

wild flowers? Of weeds? Observe the work of an elementary school for the purpose of determining: a. Whether th ...

CHAPTER VIII MENTAL IMAGES AND IDEAS As you sit thinking, a company of you together, your thoughts run in many ...

and variegated patches of color. Paul says that Jesus was "unto the Greeks, foolishness." He was foolish ...

2. HOW PAST EXPERIENCE IS CONSERVED Past Experience Conserved in Both Mental and Physical Terms.—If past ex ...

think of its general meaning and relations, the fact that it is of gold, that it is for the purpose of keep ...

ago, when he asked the English men of letters and science to think of their breakfast tables, and then descri ...

shooting of a drop of acid from the rind of the orange into the eye? The chance ache in the head ...