#43. Memory# is of little use unless it is simply the power to hold things clearly understood by the soul. It is not good teaching to burden the memory with masses of things not clearly perceived and conceived, although it may be at the beginning not at all objectionable to commit to memory certain great utterances from the Bible and other standard literature, even when the meaning is not clearly and fully apprehended. But at the earliest time possible these should be analyzed and the meaning worked into forms of clear knowledge. #44. Imagination.#--Imagination is the power of the soul to work up into new combinations the things in memory. Memory keeps things as the soul got them through the senses. The products of memory have a basis in experience. The products of imagination have no such basis in experience. Imagination is the creator of new products. It cares not for facts, but works after its own fancy. It is a more dangerous power because more free. To curb it at the outset is necessary. To allow it free range is to open the way for statements from the child that often alarm the parent or teacher. But when once the moral sense is awakened and governs imagination the latter becomes the agency that creates all art and enriches all life. #45.# Teaching aims to develop by appropriate exercise all these powers of the soul. What the pupil learns is not so important as what power he gains in the control and use of his thinking processes under the guidance of a skilful teacher. Test Questions 1. What is teaching? 2. When does teaching end? 3. What is consciousness? 4. What marks the completion of the teaching act? 5. What is attention? Voluntary? Involuntary? 6. What will most easily attract the attention of a young child? 7. State four principles underlying the child's interest? 8. Name the gateways to the soul. 9. What is a percept? 10. What is a concept? 11. State the four steps in the process of knowing. 12. When is memory of most use? 13. What is imagination? Test Questions for Review Lessons 1 to 5 1. What point of view must the teacher take? 2. Is it true that teachers are "born" not "made"? 3. What does apperception mean? 4. By what means does knowledge enter the soul? 5. What is the teacher's goal? 6. What is the highest art in teaching? 7. What four things help to the pupil's approach to the lesson? 8. What should be the teacher's real concern about the pupil? 9. What is teaching? 10. What is attention? Voluntary? Involuntary? 11. State four principles underlying the child's interest. 12. Name the gateway to the soul. Lesson 6 What an Educational Principle Is