How to secure and retain attention . CHAPTER VII. HOW TO GRATIFY AND DEVELOP THE NATURALDESIRE FOR MENTAL ACTIVITY. Activity is one of the instincts of is not happy unless its mental or physicalpowers or both are engaged. Productive activ-ity is the corner stone of the delightful andtruly philosophical system of Froebel. Give achild work to do of a character suited to his age,let it call his mental faculties and manual abili-ties into play, and he will be attentive, not mere-ly because he is occupied, but because his occu-pation gives him delight. Fellenberg says: Experience has t
How to secure and retain attention . CHAPTER VII. HOW TO GRATIFY AND DEVELOP THE NATURALDESIRE FOR MENTAL ACTIVITY. Activity is one of the instincts of is not happy unless its mental or physicalpowers or both are engaged. Productive activ-ity is the corner stone of the delightful andtruly philosophical system of Froebel. Give achild work to do of a character suited to his age,let it call his mental faculties and manual abili-ties into play, and he will be attentive, not mere-ly because he is occupied, but because his occu-pation gives him delight. Fellenberg says: Experience has taught me that indolence inyoung persons is so directly opposite to theirnatural disposition to activity, that unless it isthe consequence of bad education, it is almost48 DEVELOPING MENTAL ACTIVITY. 49 invariably connected with some constitutionaldefect. Hailman says : Perhaps attention andactivity of the mind are convertible terms; forwe observe that the mind is never attentive,?unless it is aroused to action by some externalcaus
Size: 2645px × 945px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookpublisheretcetc, booksubject
