Developing Mental Power | by George Malcolm Stratton
Every teacher requires a working knowledge of the fundamental nature of the human mind. Without it teaching cannot be made either an interesting or a creative occupation. When psychologically uninformed, the teacher can operate on the mind of youth only in a formal and mechanical way, applying traditional and contemporaneous methods of procedure without much ability to adapt technique to conditions for the purpose of gaining predictable results...
| Title | Developing Mental Power |
| Author | George Malcolm Stratton |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Company |
| Year | 1922 |
| Copyright | 1922, George Malcolm Stratton |
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Riverside Educational Monographs
Edited By Henry Suzzallo, President Of The University Of Washington, Seattle
By George Malcolm Stratton, Professor Of Psychology In The University Of California
Note: A part of what is here offered has appeared in an article called "The Mind as Misrepresented to Teachers." The author wishes to thank the Editor of the Atlantic Monthly, where the paper was first published, for permission to reprint it. In preparing the present monograph, however, the earlier paper has been entirely rewritten and new material has been added.
Editor's Introduction- Every teacher requires a working knowledge of the fundamental nature of the human mind. Without it teaching cannot be made either an interesting or a creative occupation. When psychologically uninform...
- I. Is The Mind A Gymnasium Or A Tool-Chest?
- If we can see, though in outline, what the mind is, much that is dark both to parent and to teacher begins to clear. One may now know in what quarter there is hope of success, and where failure, and m...
- II. Defects In The Rival Accounts
- The controversy is thus in brief before us, each side with its different account of the mind. Believe the psychologist, cries a recent writer to the schoolmen. And this encourages one to examine the...
- Defects In The Rival Accounts. Continued
- The experiments in clear support of this doctrine, however - that you train merely what you train - are few; most experiments contradict it. Improvement in judging the area of certain figures, as was ...
- III. The Interplay Of Mind And Body
- Even in what has been reviewed thus far, we have caught glimpses of the mind's behavior. But there has been interest in refutation, in denial; and denial by itself profits little. Perhaps this spirit ...
- IV. Influences Within Intelligence
- Passing from these evidences that the bodily and the mental functions interplay, let us now observe to what extent the mind's own functions touch one another. We shall see the need, first of all, of ...
- V. Emotion And Mental Energy
- But were we now to look to the energy of the mind, we should find something of wider bearing, evident not only in our thinking, but in every form of will. This energy makes itself known in the strengt...
- VI. The Organization Of Impulses And Will
- But the emotions are not alone in need of care. The impulses and the will cry out their own neglect. This is the more important, for they too lead us beyond the thought of independent functions and fa...
- VII. The Care Of The Emotions
- But some, while admitting that the corrected account of the mind may be truer to the facts, will deny that it is important for education. We must forever go on storing the mind and exercising its sepa...
- VIII. Instincts Wild And Tame
- But the emotions cannot be separated from the instincts, nor these from the will. All are distinctions within the total life, and if the full mind is to be made effective, we must sketch some plan of ...
- IX. Exercises For The Will
- With this glance at the savage instincts become civilized, one may well turn to the will, ask what a strong will really is, and by what forging it has its temper. 1. And first we shall see that there...
- X. Establishing Government In The Mind
- The education that is needed will touch the person, part and entire, body and spirit, running through senses, memory, understanding, affections, and will. It will not frown upon special activities; th...
- Other Books By George M. Stratton
- Experimental Psychology and its Bearing upon Culture. London and New York, 1903. Psychology of the Religious Life, London and New York, 1911. Theophrastus and the Greek Physiological Psychology befo...
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- Bolenius: Teaching Literature in the Grammar Grades and High School Kendall, Mirick: How to Teach the Fundamental Subjects Kendall, Mirick: How to Teach the Special Subjects Stone: Silent and Oral Re...
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