Psychology applied to education : a series of lectures on the theory & practice of education / by James Ward ; edited by G. Dawes Hicks.

  • Ward, James, 1843-1925.
Date:
1926
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Credit: Psychology applied to education : a series of lectures on the theory & practice of education / by James Ward ; edited by G. Dawes Hicks. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on Gnosticism or Mr Casaubon’s Key to all the Mythologies—and then give as much time to some book with which you have long been anxious to make acquaintance, such as The Life of Gordon. Note your feelings while reading in each case, and recall what you have learnt in the two cases a week or so after; and then reflect for a while on the unhappy lot and the wasted energies of a child whose delight is Hans Andersen or Grimm’s goblins, or the rearing of silkworms and the capture of butterflies, or the fash¬ ioning of a wooden windmill or a water-clock, but who is provided with no occupation more congenial to his tastes than strings of dates, endless paradigms and bills of parcels or tare and tret. I do not say all work can be as pleasant as play, but the greater part of it can be made interesting, though to do this will be difficult. Yet, if the value of interest were sufficiently realized, more efforts would be made to surmount the difficulty.