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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

CONDENSED Volume 1 Part 3. Chapter 2II.—THE CHILDREN HAVE NO SELF-COMPELLING POWER Some years ago I was accustomed to hear, ‘Habit is ten natures,’ delivered from the pulpit on at least one Sunday out of four. I had at the time just begun to teach, and was young and enthusiastic in my work. It was

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 3. Chapter 1 PART III‘Habit is Ten Natures’ I.—EDUCATION IS BASED UPON NATURAL LAW A Healthy Brain.—What I desire to set before the reader is a method of education based upon natural law. In the first place, we have considered some of the conditions to be observed with a view to keep

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 14 XIV.—THE CHILDREN REQUIRE COUNTRY AIR Every one knows that the breathing of air… is the essential condition of vigorous life and of a fine physique; also, that whatever produces heat, whether it be animal heat, or the heat of fire, candle, gas-lamp, produces that heat at the expense of

CONDENSEDVolume 1 Part 2. Chapter 13 XIII.—‘RED INDIAN’ LIFE Scouting.—Baden Powell’s little book about Scouting set us upon a new track. Hundreds of families make joyous expeditions, far more educative than they dream, wherein scouting is the order of the day. But every family should possess Scouting in default of the chance of going on