The Theory of Teaching and Elementary Psychology

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Distance, auditory determination of, 63; visual signs of, 72. Division, logical, 139; rules for, 140. Ear, the external, 58; the internal, 59. Education, defined, 6; factors, 7; statements of the end of, 8 ff.; feeling and, 307 ff.; knowledge and. 311 ff. Education values, 314. Emotions. 207; different types of, 209. End organs. 32; jf touch, 53. Envjronment, 232; of school, 235. Equilibrium, sense of, 60. Ethical imagination, 121. Euler'a notation, 142, 145. Exercise strengthens faculty, 246. Explanation and description, 291; further characterized, 292. Expression, of feeling, 207; pedagogical law of, 299; school must provide for, 300. Extension, and intension, 134. Eye, structure of, 66; muscular sensations of, 70. Eyeball, muscles of, 70, 74. Fact vs. truth, 2. Fallacies, logical, 152. Fancy, in children, 124; confusion of fact and, 124. Fatigue, sensations of. 52; in school. 229, 230. Feeling, defined, 16, 206; classification of, 206; reflexive effect of, 207; genesis of, 208; pleasure-pain element, 209; social feelings, 209; as motive, 212, 307; children's feelings, 212; tabular outline of, 214; sum- mary of, 214; relation to knowing and will- ing, 304; and education, 307 ff. Fool, Thring's definition of, 250, 276. Fovea, the, 67. Geometry, syllogism in, 153. General judgments, 144; how we come by them, 154. General method, 178 ff. Generalization, stage in conception. 129. Genus and species, 133. Grammar, as a training in conception, 289, 290; uses of, 296. Habit, basis of, 192; examples of, 193; essen- tial characteristics of, 193; differs from instinct, 195; effects of on life. 195; bond- age of, 196; education and, 197; good habits not spontaneous, 198; Prof. James on, 198, 239, 240; summary of, 199; peda- gogical law of, 236; duty of teachers con- cerni...