The Herbartian psychology applied to education : being a series of essays applying the psychology of Johann Friedrich Herbart / by John Adams.

  • Adams, John, 1857-1934.
Date:
[1900?]
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Credit: The Herbartian psychology applied to education : being a series of essays applying the psychology of Johann Friedrich Herbart / by John Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    those inspectors have got! Must keep them out of sight next time he comes round. Grreat credit — come, that's something like — enthusiasm — stimulating. Now that's what I call — hillo ! What's this about text- books? J didn't make the text-books: that's the pub- lisher's look-out. They're the easiest I can find. Here we may be permitted to interrupt Fagin, first of all to quote from Dickens the passage referring to the text-books, and then to show that, as is not seldom the case, the teacher and not the publisher was to blame for whatever was wrong. Oliver is described as turning over the leaves of a book that has been left to enliven his solitude on the eve of a crime into which he is to be dragged. He turned over the leaves, carelessly at first; but lighting on a passage which attracted his attention, he soon became intent upon the volume. It was a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use. Here he read of dreadful crimes that made the blood run cold; of secret murders that had been committed by the lonely way- side ; of bodies hidden from the eye of man in deep pits and wells, which would not keep them down, deep as they were, but had yielded them up at last, after many years, and so maddened the murderers with the sight, that in their horror they had confessed their guilt, and yelled for the gibbet to end their agony. Here, too, he read of men who, lying in their beds at dead of night, had been tempted (so they said) and led on, by their own bad thoughts, to such dreadful bloodshed as it made the flesh creep and the limbs quail to think of.