The child's mind : its growth and training being a short study of some processes of learning and teaching / by W.E. Urwick.

  • Urwick, W. E. (William Eddowes)
Date:
1907
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    beautiful, the difficulties which he meets with enhance respect for the great artist and his interest in the technique of art. No one, for example, who has never tried to write a sonnet really understands what a triumph of art a good sonnet is.* Each emotion, as we have seen, however complex, is a response expressing the attitude of mind as a whole to some situation in environment as a whole. Each immediate value which a mind possesses is called forth by some particular aspect of a section of environment ; each final value is relative to a purpose, and the purpose, with all the knowledge, great or small, that has gathered round it, is used to deal with or interpret some one and definite section of environment. All these are so far sec- tional ; of course, in an abstract sense they are unified, as all of them belonging to one personality. But what influence brought to bear in education is to draw them all together and harmonize them in the service of one increasing and dominant purpose ? How among all the values, immediate and final, which a mind inevitably acquires are the evil ones to be eliminated ? Is experience itself to remain a tangled web, formless, inconsistent, and purpose- less ? While mind has acquired stable attitudes towards many separate situations, is it to remain * Is it not curious that, whereas this writing in Latin and Greek verses has been so long practised, so little attempt is ever made to encourage pupils to write verse in English ? Yet, whether the pupil is successful or not, the attempt is worth making, for it brings with it a respect for good poetry hardly obtainable without it.