Psychology applied to the art of teaching / by Joseph Baldwin ; with an introduction by James Gibson Hume . mistake of dragging pupils through work which they do notunderstand. Point out two mistakes that you have observed. 200 APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY AND TEACHING. CHAPTER XV EDUCATION OF EEASON. By this is meant the development of the power todiscern cause-relations. Thinking is discerning rela-tions. When we conceivewe discern class-relations;as, animal, we judge we dis-cern truth - relations ; as,God is love. When wereason we discern cause-relations ; as, we are hap-py because %m
Psychology applied to the art of teaching / by Joseph Baldwin ; with an introduction by James Gibson Hume . mistake of dragging pupils through work which they do notunderstand. Point out two mistakes that you have observed. 200 APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY AND TEACHING. CHAPTER XV EDUCATION OF EEASON. By this is meant the development of the power todiscern cause-relations. Thinking is discerning rela-tions. When we conceivewe discern class-relations;as, animal, we judge we dis-cern truth - relations ; as,God is love. When wereason we discern cause-relations ; as, we are hap-py because %m are conceive, judge, andreason; thus we elaboratecrude notions into science. I. Relations of ReasonAND Definitions ofTerms. Reason crowns the in-tellectual pyramid (see cut,page 154). We treasurerich stores of intuitions;we modify our experi-ences ; we think our particular notions into general no-tions, and these into truths, that reason may have mate-rials out of which to make science. I. Relations.—Self as reason commands all his otherintellectual powers. Necessary-intuition furnishes rea-. RELATIONS OF REASON AND DEFINITIONS OF TERMS. 201 son the necessary-truths as a fulcrum on which to placehis lever to move the world. Necessary-ideas, gener-alized into necessary-truths, make reasoning supplies the propositions out of which selfas reason makes his arguments and in which he ex-presses his conclusions. Reason serves as well as com-mcmds / reason assists in the formation of percepts andconcepts and judgments and ideals. II. Terms Defined.—Our faculties are simply ourcapabilities to do acts different in kind. A faculty ismerely a distinct native energy of self. Reason is thenative energy of self to infer conclusions. 1. Reason is the capability to discern neiv truths through re-lated truths. A man is rational because he discerns the reasons ofthings. The brute perceives the apple falling, but does not discernthe cause; the brute is not rational. 2
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