Fundamentals of child study : a discussion of instincts and other factors in human development with practical application / by Edwin A. Kirkpatrick.

  • Kirkpatrick, Edwin A. (Edwin Asbury), 1862-1937.
Date:
1908
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    when one is experienced, others may be inferred, are e natural results of efforts to obtain practical ends For example, m learning to tell when watermelons are ripe, the color, hardness, sound, and appearance of the melon and of the curl are discriminated, and their con- nection with the inside appearance and taste of the I0'64 u °r’ aga‘n’ trying t0 build a house with blocks so that it will Stand and look pretty, care- t. dlscminatl°n of form, position, size, and color of he blocks and of their relation to each other, is neces- sary. Similar statements are true of nearly all games plays and construction in which children engage, as well as in drawing, writing, and all affairs of practical life The function of the teacher in such training is prin- cipally to put before the child interesting and definite things to be done or found out, and to occasionally :‘r® , h'S attentl0n toward essential characteristics so at habits of analytic and concentrated attention will t:re°P1\ ThlS glVes a training in perception not to be gained by any series of exercises for the special purpose of training the senses only. Since such training of perception is, in the nature of the case, special as regards the purposes directing it general training in perception can be secured only by getting children interested not only in many things but ti«d ^ thgfiSS fr°m Various Points of view- as the prac- tical, scientific, aesthetic. development of the power to image True images are formed only when an object not pres pe s^nTobTecf ’ “ ^ a Chi,d ** ™ person or object is not in the usual place. Language