Teacher's Hand-book of Psychology: On the Basis of the "Outlines of Psychology"

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D. Appleton, 1887 - Psychology - 423 pages
 

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Page 160 - The business of education, as I have already observed, is not, as I think, to make them perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it.
Page 33 - The Principles of Physiology, applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.
Page 268 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Page 66 - The authority is subject to the superior authority of the Ego. I yield it, or I withhold it, as I please. I direct it in turn to several points. I concentrate it upon each point as long as my will can stand the effort." Sully says: "Attention may be roughly defined as the active self-direction of the mind to any object which presents itself at the moment.

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