The Herbartian Psychology Applied to Education: Being a Series of Essays Applying the Psychology of Johann Friedrich HerbartD. C. Heath & Company, 1898 - 284 pages |
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Page 255 - If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no 'mind-stuff...
Page 3 - And do you see, I said, men passing along the wall carrying all sorts of vessels, and statues and figures of animals made of wood and stone and various materials, which appear over the wall? Some of them are talking, others silent. You have shown me a strange image, and they are strange prisoners. Like ourselves, I replied; and they see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave?
Page 211 - A little Cyclops, with one eye Staring to threaten and defy, That thought comes next — and instantly The freak is over, The shape will vanish, and behold ! A silver shield with boss of gold That spreads itself, some faery bold In fight to cover.
Page 3 - AND NOW, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened:— Behold! human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den...
Page 156 - HAMLET. Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? POLONIUS. By the mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET. Methinks it is like a weasel. [82] POLONIUS. It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET. Or like a whale ? POLONIUS. Very like a whale.
Page 36 - I think, serves best to stand for whatsoever is the object of the understanding when a man thinks, I have used it to express whatever is meant by phantasm, notion, species, or whatever it is which the mind can be employed about in thinking...
Page 147 - I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.
Page 142 - Street office they have taken up the pavement and thrown up some earth, which lies in such a way that it is difficult to avoid treading in it in entering. The earth is of this peculiar reddish tint which is found as far as I know nowhere else in the neighbourhood.
Page 16 - Verbs of teaching govern two accusatives, one of the person, another of the thing; as, Magister Johannem Latinam docuit — the master taught John Latin.
Page 10 - Stelling's theory: if we are to have one regimen for all minds, his seems to me as good as any other. I only know it turned out as uncomfortably for Tom Tulliver as if he had been plied with cheese in order to remedy a gastric weakness which prevented him from digesting it.