A final exemplification of the required balance between near and far is
found in the relation that obtains between the narrower field of
experience realized in an individual's own contact with persons and
things, and the wider experience of the race that may become his through
communication. Instruction always runs the risk of swamping the pupil's
own vital, though narrow, experience under masses of communicated
material. The instructor ceases and the teacher begins at the point
where communicated matter stimulates into fuller and more significant
life that which has entered by the strait and narrow gate of
sense-perception and motor activity. Genuine communication involves
contagion; its name should not be taken in vain by terming communication
that which produces no community of thought and purpose between the
child and the race of which he is the heir.
INDEX
Abstract, 135-144
Abstraction, 155 f.
Action, activity, activities, 46, 140 f., 157-169, 190 f.
Active attitude and the concept, 128
Analysis, 111-115, 152 f.;
in education, 112
Apperception, 199;
apperceptive masses, 203
Application, 129 f., 212 f.
Apprehension, 119 f.;
_see_ Understanding.
Artist, attitude of, 219 f.
Articulation, 3
Authority, 4, 25
Bacon, 22, 25, 33
Bain, 155
Balance, 38
Behavior, 5, 42-4, 54 f.;
_see_ Action, Occupations
Belief, 1, 3-7;
reached indirectly, 18
Central factor in thinking, 7
Children, 42 f.
Clifford, 148
Coherence, 3, 80
Comparison, 89 f., 202
Comprehension, 120;
_see_ Understanding.
Concentration, 40
Concept, conception, 107, 125-9, 213;
_see_ Meaning.
Conclusion, 3, 5 f., 40, 77, 80 f.;
technique of, 87 f.
Concrete, 135-44
Congruity, 3, 72
Connection, 7;
_see_ Relation.
Consecutive, 2, 40, 42
Consequence, consequential, 2;
consequences, 5
Consistency, 40
Continuity, 3, 40, 80
Control, 18-28;
of deduction, 93-100;
of induction, 84-93;
of suggestion, 84 f., 93;
_see_ Regulation.
Corroborate, corroboration, 9, 77
Curiosity, 31 ff., 105
Darwin, 38, 90, 127
Data, 79 f., 95, 103 f., 106
Decision, 107
Deduction, 79, 93-100, 103;
control of, 93-100
Definition, 130 f.;
definitions, 131-4, 212
Development, of ideas, 83;
_see_ Elaboration, Ratiocination, Reasoning.
Discipline, 63, 78;
formal, 45, 50
Discourse, consecutive, 185 f.
Discovery, inductive, 81, 116
Division, 131
Dogmatism, 149, 198
Doing, 139, 190
Doubt, 6, 9, 13, 102;
_see_ Perplexity, Uncertainty.
Drill, 52, 63
Drudgery, 218
Education, intellectual, 57, 62;
aim of, 143 f., 156
Elaboration, of ideas, 75 f., 84, 94 f., 103, 106, 209;
_see_ Development, Ratiocination, Reasoning.
Emerson, 173
Emotion, 4, 11, 74
Emphasis, 112, 114 f.
Empirical thinking, 145-9
End, 11 f.
Evidence, 5, 7 f., 27, 103 f.;
_see_ Grounds.
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