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CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 4. Chapter 3 III.—THE HABIT OF THINKING … by ‘thinking,’ let us mean a real conscious effort of mind, and not the fancies that flit without effort through the brain. …the sort of thing that the children should go through, more or less, in every lesson—a tracing of effect from cause, or […]

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 4. Chapter 2 II—THE HABITS OF APPLICATION,ETC. The child may plod diligently through his work who might be trained to rapid mental effort. The teacher herself must be alert, must expect instant answers, quick thought, rapid work. The tortoise will lag behind the hare, but the tortoise must be trained to move,

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 4. Chapter 1 I.—THE HABIT OF ATTENTION To explain why this habit is of such supreme importance,… consider… the … attention with which the trained professional man—the lawyer, the doctor, the man of letters—listens to a roundabout story, throws out the padding, seizes the facts, sees the bearing of every circumstance, and

CONDENSEDCondensed Volume 3. Chapter 9 IX.—PHYSICAL EXERCISES … to give the child pleasure in light and easy motion—the sort of delight in the management of his own body…dancing, drill, calisthenics, some sort of judicious physical exercise, should make part of every day’s routine. Drill of Good Manners.—Just let them go through the drill of good

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 3. Chapter 8 VIII.—INFANT ‘HABITS’ The whole group of habitudes, half physical and half moral, on which the propriety and comfort of everyday life depend, are received passively by the child; that is, he does very little to form these habits himself, but his brain receives impressions from what he sees about

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 3. Chapter 7 VII.—THE FORMING OF A HABIT—‘SHUT THE DOOR AFTER YOU’ “Do ye next thinge.” “Lose this day loitering, and ’twill be the same storyTo-morrow; and the next, more dilatory:The indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost, lamenting o’er lost days,” The effort of decision, we have seen, is the

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 3. Chapter 6 VI.—THE PHYSIOLOGY OF HABIT …the tissues, as muscular tissue, for instance, undergo constant waste and as constant reparation. Even those modes of muscular action which we regard as natural to us, as walking and standing erect, are in reality the results of a laborious education;… Why? Because it is

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 3. Chapter 5 V.—THE LAYING DOWN OF LINES OF HABIT ‘Begin it, and the thing will be completed!’… we are brought face to face with the fact that, whatever seed of thought or feeling you implant in a child—whether through inheritance or by early training—grows, completes itself, and begets after its kind,

CondensedVolume 1 Part 3. Chapter 4 IV.—HABIT MAY SUPPLANT ‘NATURE’           ‘Habit is ten natures.’ If that be true, strong as nature is, habit is not only as strong, but tenfold as strong. Here, then, have we a stronger than he, able to overcome this strong man armed.           Habit runs on the Lines of

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 3. Chapter 3 III.—WHAT IS ‘NATURE’? ‘Habit is ten natures,’ went on being proclaimed in my ears; and at last it came home to me as a weighty saying,… I was in quest of. In the first place, what is Nature, and what, precisely, is Habit? All Persons born with the same