Child Observations: 1st Series: Imitation and Allied Activities. Made by the Students, and Published Under the Auspices of the Graduates' Association of the State Normal School at Worcester, Mass

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Ellen M. Haskell
D. C. Heath & Company, 1896 - 267 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 20 - There I met an old man Who would not say his prayers; I took him by the left leg, And threw him down-stairs.
الصفحة xxix - are always looking for the man in the child, without thinking what he was before he became a man." Psychology as such has no alternative but to regard the child as a little man, a homunculus ; whereas the mere fact of its immaturity and the shifting proportions which its
الصفحة xxxiv - I worked on true Baconian principles, and without any theory collected facts on a wholesale scale.
الصفحة ix - It has seemed to me of prime importance to keep the motives and direction of this study of children right end foremost ; that is, not to forget that we want to know children in order to enter into fuller sympathy with them, not to let the knowing, however scientific, stand as the sole end in
الصفحة xxxiv - the care and diligence to collect whatsoever come to their knowledge, and sincerely and faithfully to register all things, without choice or culling, by the naked truth leave our judgment more entire and
الصفحة xi - begin at its sources, because we do not yet know them. They are precisely what we are trying to discover ; and our only way is to note in which direction the current flows, and then follow it upward as best we can. In such a study as this a vast body of facts
الصفحة xvi - There is thus a language of things and events that speaks to the child, and is understood by him, and intelligently responded to by his imitative acts, long before he is able to comprehend and use conventional speech. Here is an avenue and vehicle of acquisition and expression that antedate even the
الصفحة ix - in the case of a very small number of devotees of science for its own sake, and even here I should be very particular about requiring such to show their credentials. I deem it better not to urge young teachers to assume the scientific role, to think that nothing short of this or other than this is of any dignity or avail.
الصفحة xxix - be one or the other ; they are as unlike as buds are unlike flowers, and almost as blossoms are unlike fruits.
الصفحة 13 - years. Jack spit on his fingers, and rubbed the wall of the house. He continued ,doing so for three or four minutes. I said, " What is Jack doing ? " He answered, " Jack painting house.

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