The Mind and Its Education - George Herbert Betts

other than by connecting them with their logical associations. Such facts as may be typified by the ...

facts we wish to remember, and we should be able to insure their recall as certainly and in a better w ...

CHAPTER XII THINKING No word is more constantly on our lips than the word think. A hundred times a day ...

and the savages that eclipses were caused by animals eating up the moon. Not a few people today believe that ...

solution of his problem. Before we can engage in deliberative thinking we must be confronted by some proble ...

other functions than to instruct, and friends mean much more to us than mere enjoyment. And just in ...

thinking. Child and Adult Thinking.—What constitutes the difference in the thinking of the child and that of ...

must be able to annihilate both time and space, and to deal with millions of individuals together i ...

qualities retained as the measure by which to test the admission of other individuals into this ...

the developing concept. Definition of Concept.—A concept, then, is our general idea or notion of a class of i ...

accumulating, and his knowledge growing more valuable and usable. 5. JUDGMENT But in the building up of percepts ...

Judgment Leads to General Truths.—But judgment goes much farther than to assist in building percepts a ...

more certain of the terms involved, and this in turn sends us back for a review of our concepts or t ...

of all our interests, and the decision more or less makes itself. We find, for instance, that we must, ...

minor premise, since it deals with a particular man. The third is the conclusion, in which a new rela ...

individual cases not been carried so far as in the former case when the generalization was mad ...

type is being employed by each child. What proportion of the time supposedly given to study is given ...

How ought this chapter to help one in making a better teacher? A better student? ...

CHAPTER XIII INSTINCT Nothing is more wonderful than nature's method of endowing each individual at the be ...

is at this point that instinct comes to the rescue. The race has not given the child a mind ready m ...