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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    we are in hopeful case. We cannot compare things till we have at least stood outside of them, if not risen above them. Your only really hopeless man is he who denies that there are idols, or at any rate that he has idols. He sits in his den enjoying his shadows, and is terrible in his scorn of all who pretend that there is something in the universe more real than those darling black puppets. Almost any means is justifiable that shall rouse this modern cave-dweller to a sense of his deplorable state. If he can be roused to defend his idols, there is every probability that in the clash of arms those idols may show themselves to be what they are. As for the Grace-of-God teachers, they are beyond hope.