Youth and the Race: A Study in the Psychology of AdolescenceC. Scribner's Sons, 1912 - 340 من الصفحات "The role which racial instincts play in the emotions, intellect, and will of children has been the subject of many investigations in recent years by those interested in the psychology of childhood. These studies, however, have had but slight effect upon the methods of the schools. This book is an attempt to show the possible application of some of these results to the education of children. Teachers have followed the traditional methods of education which were adopted before the knowledge which we now have was available. The ideas and practice of the old English grammar-schools were brought to this country by those deeply imbued with belief in the natural depravity of children, and our educational methods have never recovered from the affliction. The author has tried to indicate how the schools may help to transform into intellectual and moral forces the racial instincts which, as manifestations of original sin, distressed our forefathers. Effort has also been made to fix the responsibility for conditions that cause these primitive impulses to continue dominant beyond the age when they should yield to social and ethical principles of action"--Préface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved). |
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الصفحة 128 - But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repress'd their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the souL Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
الصفحة 192 - Wales is shown in the following table : — It will be seen...
الصفحة 214 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him (xxii.
الصفحة 305 - The affinity between them is so close that it is difficult to tell where one begins and the other ends.
الصفحة 111 - The inequality in the production of scientific men in different parts of the country seems to be a forcible argument against the view of Dr. Galton and Professor Pearson that scientific performance is almost exclusively due to heredity. It is unlikely that there are such differences in family stocks as would lead one part of the country to produce a hundred times as many scientific men as other parts.
الصفحة 230 - I must furthermore say that those criminals who are known to me are not, as is also popularly supposed, the scum of their environment On the contrary, they are above their environment, and are often gifted with talents which would enable them to do well in any class, could they only be brought to realize its responsibilities and to take advantage of its opportunities. This notion that the criminal is the lowest type of his class in society arises from a false conception of that class and of the people...
الصفحة 332 - When two elementary brain-processes have been active together or in immediate succession, one of them, on reoccurring, tends to propagate its excitement into the other.
الصفحة 145 - The Social Center has accomplished what I regarded as impossible. I have been here nine years and during that time there has always been a gang of toughs around these corners, which has been a continual nuisance. This winter the gang has disappeared.
الصفحة 290 - The present paper may be considered as the summing up of the general results of several years' work by the author on the behavior of the lowest organisms. This work has shown that in these creatures the behavior is not as a rule on the tropism plan — a set, forced method of reacting to each particular agent — but takes place in a much more flexible, less directly machine-like way, by the method of trial and error.