Aspects of Child Life and Education of G.Stanley-Hall and Some of His Pupils

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D. Appleton, 1921 - 326 páginas

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Página 277 - There are few of us who, if asked to choose between having a beautiful body clad in raiment perpetually shabby and unclean, and having an ugly and blemished form always spotlessly attired, would not hesitate a moment before making a decisive reply.
Página 24 - The subject-matter of primers for the latter is in great part still traditionally of country life ; hence the danger of unwarranted presupposition is considerable. As our methods of teaching grow natural we realize that city life is unnatural, and that those who grow up without knowing
Página 24 - on oaks, bread to be swelled yeast, trees to be stuck in the ground by God and to be rootless, meat to be dug from the ground, and potatoes to be picked from the trees. Cheese is squeezed butter, the cow says " bow wow,
Página 199 - of things used in war, the contents of an arsenal, flags, streamers, banners, etc. A set of these toys is bought for every son born in the family. Hence in old Japanese families the display of the fifth day of the fifth month is extensive and brilliant.
Página 25 - laid. We cannot accept without many careful qualifications the evolutionary dictum that the child's mental development should repeat that of the race. Unlike primitive man, the child has a feeble body and is ever influenced by a higher culture about him. Yet from the primeval intimacy with the qualities and habits of plants, with the instincts of
Página 11 - what may Boston children be, by their teachers, assumed to know and have seen when they enter school; although other purposes more psychological shaped other questions used later. The difficulties and sources of possible error in the use of such questions are many. Not only are children prone to imitate others in their answers without stopping to think and give
Página 23 - school training is to make them acquainted with natural objects, especially with the sights and sounds of the country, and to send them to good and hygienic, as distinct from the most fashionable, kindergartens.
Página 241 - Biological Property, defined biologically, is anything that the individual may acquire which sustains and prolongs life, favors survival, and gives an advantage over opposing forces. What are the conditions and circumstances attending the acquisition of property among the forms of animal life
Página 280 - In making the object my own I stamped it with my own person: whoever attacks it attacks me, the blow struck it strikes me, for I am present in it." Is not this the answer to our query? The recognition of things
Página 23 - of school life. Hence the need of objects and the danger of books and word cram. Hence many of the best primary teachers in Germany spend from two to four or even six months in talking of objects and drawing them before any beginning

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