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.

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    not their natural selves, yet Isaac calmly assumes that the animals in the Ark were at their ease. What could be more unnatural than the sight that Juveniles under twelve are privileged to see for sixpence ? Wrenched from their true environment, and thrust into another, full of incongruities, none of the animals appears at its usual, not to say its best. The elephant alone, and perhaps the camel, retains some degree of naturalness, maybe because he is big enough to supply a sort of environment for himself. For the former of the two kinds of knowledge referred to above, the Ark certainly offers distinct facilities. We can examine each animal in great detail, we can compare one animal with another, we can classify them, and, crowning glory, we can be prepared to be examined upon them. So far as the minute study of each individual animal goes. Ark edu- cation is perfectly sound; for each fact in Anatomy or Physiology is not an isolated fact, but a fact which finds a place and an explanation in the organism in which it is found. The hard leathery pads on the camel's legs, for example, and its humps, can be to some extent at least explained by discovering their relation to the other parts of the animal's frame. The finger at the end of the elephant's trunk readily demonstrates its own place and usefulness in the elephant's organism. Can the same be said of the animal as a whole? Itself an organism, and therefore a harmony of parts and forces, it can explain any part of its being by the simple expedient of merely living. Any question regarding the members or functions of the elephant's