Developing mental power
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| Developing mental power |
From the 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 uninformed, the teacher can operate on the mind of the youth only formally and mechanically, applying traditional and content-spontaneous methods of the procedure without much ability to adapt the technique to conditions to gain predictable results.
Certainly, the teacher who would make his teaching life an interesting and effective adventure with youth will wish to possess whatever scientific insight is necessary to an artful stimulation and control of growing minds.
We recognize the field of human psychology as vast. At best its mastery is a patient and difficult matter.
The important thing is to make a correct beginning. It will be highly economical of energy and discouragement.
The waste of wrong views and partial views can hardly be overestimated.
And such waste is largely avoidable if only the first general view of the nature of the mind is accurately acquired. Important truths gained and held
Contents
editor's introduction
i. is the mind a gymnasium or a tool chest?
il. defects in the rival accounts
iv. influences within intelligence
iii. the interplay of mind and body
v. emotion and mental energy
vi. the organization of impulses and will
ii. Take care of the emotions. instincts wild and tame
ix. exercises for free will
x. establishing a government in the mind