The Pedagogical Seminary, Volume 21J.H. Orpha, 1914 - Child development An international record of educational literature, institutions and progress. |
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Page 569 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
Page 17 - Unfolded out of the folds of the woman's brain come all the folds of the man's brain, duly obedient, Unfolded out of the justice of the woman all justice is unfolded, Unfolded out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy ; A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity, but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman ; First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.
Page 13 - There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.
Page 564 - The scale is accurate enough to be of very great practical value in measuring the merit of English compositions written in the upper grades of the elementary school and in the high school. The scale will also serve as the basis of future efforts in this direction, and it can be refined and perfected part by part
Page 363 - When a modifiable connection between a situation and a response is made and is accompanied or followed by a satisfying state of affairs, that connection's strength is increased; when made and accompanied or followed by an annoying state of affairs, its strength is decreased.
Page 343 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion.
Page 357 - Individuals practiced estimating the areas of rectangles from 10 to 100 sq. cm. in size until a very marked improvement was attained. The improvement in accuracy for areas of the same size but of different shape due to this training was only 44 per cent. as great as that for areas of the same shape and size. For areas of the same shape but from 140-300 sq. cm. in size the improvement...
Page 358 - Our conclusion from the experiment, therefore, is that efficiency of sensible discrimination acquired by training with sound stimuli has been transferred to the efficiency of discriminating brightness stimuli, and that the factors in this transfer are due in great part to habituation and to a more economic adaptation of attention, ie, are general rather than specific in character.
Page 563 - She refused and was lead to prison, from there to death. While the flames were writhing around her she bade the old bishop who stood by her to move away or he would be injured. Her last thought was of others and De Quincy says, that recant was no more in her mind than on her lips. She died as she lived, with a prayer on her lips and listening to the voices that had whispered to her so often. The heroism of Joan of Arc was wonderful. We do not know what form her great patriotism took or how far it...
Page 396 - ... 1st, That idiotic and feeble-minded children in our school, throughout their period of growth, are about two inches shorter and nine pounds lighter than normal children of the same ages. 2d, That the relative rate of growth of the two sexes of idiot children corresponds very nearly to that of...