It is said that there is no royal road to learning; and while in a sense this is true, it is
also true that, in all things, even in mind training, there is a right way as well as a wrong way--or there is right way, and there's a thousand wrong ways.
You need not expect an essay on psychology or a series of dissertations on the "faculties of the mind"; for there will be nothing of the kind. On the other hand, I shall, as far as feasible, avoid text-book terms and the text-book tone--both of which are absurd and futile. I shall try to give you bare facts. I shall try to give you plain directions, stripped of all verbal and pseudo-scientific flummery.
The objective in this editorial is to show you the benefits of diversifying our learning experience. To diversify they would vary our learning tools, teaching methods - and the way they learn.
FIRST of all, before you can think at all, you must have something to think about. You must have some mental "stock in trade." And this mental stock in trade you can gain only through the senses. The appearance of a tree, the roar of the ocean, the odor of a rose, the taste of an orange, the sensation you experience in handling a piece of satin--all these are a lot material helping to form your stock of mental images--"the contentof the consciousness," as the scholastic psychologists call it.
The length and exactness of the sight, the skill and sureness of the hand, the delicacy of the hearing, are of value to artist and artisan similar by the perfection and rapidity of work that they insure. Nothing embarrasses a woman so trained; they is, so to speak, prepared for anything. Her cultivated senses have become for her tools of universal use. The more ideal her sensations, the more justness and clearness do her ideas acquire. The schooling of the senses is the primary kind of intellectual schooling.
Now, all these millions and millions of facts which make up our mental stock in trade--the material of thought are gained through the senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and so on. Therefore there is tremendous value in Perceptions.
The intuitive, concrete form given nowadays to schooling contributes to the training of the senses by developing attention, observation; but this does not suffice. To ideal the senses and make each of them, in its own perceptions, acquire all feasible force and precision, they must be subjected to exercises.
Learning does not need to finish nor start in the classroom. Our senses are profound, engage and exercise them they must. Using educational DVDs, and other expertise at our disposal today, gives us the chance to diversify our learning experience. By varying our learning tools they generate an surroundings that invigorates our perception.
You need not expect an essay on psychology or a series of dissertations on the "faculties of the mind"; for there will be nothing of the kind. On the other hand, I shall, as far as feasible, avoid text-book terms and the text-book tone--both of which are absurd and futile. I shall try to give you bare facts. I shall try to give you plain directions, stripped of all verbal and pseudo-scientific flummery.
The objective in this editorial is to show you the benefits of diversifying our learning experience. To diversify they would vary our learning tools, teaching methods - and the way they learn.
FIRST of all, before you can think at all, you must have something to think about. You must have some mental "stock in trade." And this mental stock in trade you can gain only through the senses. The appearance of a tree, the roar of the ocean, the odor of a rose, the taste of an orange, the sensation you experience in handling a piece of satin--all these are a lot material helping to form your stock of mental images--"the contentof the consciousness," as the scholastic psychologists call it.
The length and exactness of the sight, the skill and sureness of the hand, the delicacy of the hearing, are of value to artist and artisan similar by the perfection and rapidity of work that they insure. Nothing embarrasses a woman so trained; they is, so to speak, prepared for anything. Her cultivated senses have become for her tools of universal use. The more ideal her sensations, the more justness and clearness do her ideas acquire. The schooling of the senses is the primary kind of intellectual schooling.
Now, all these millions and millions of facts which make up our mental stock in trade--the material of thought are gained through the senses, sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and so on. Therefore there is tremendous value in Perceptions.
The intuitive, concrete form given nowadays to schooling contributes to the training of the senses by developing attention, observation; but this does not suffice. To ideal the senses and make each of them, in its own perceptions, acquire all feasible force and precision, they must be subjected to exercises.
Learning does not need to finish nor start in the classroom. Our senses are profound, engage and exercise them they must. Using educational DVDs, and other expertise at our disposal today, gives us the chance to diversify our learning experience. By varying our learning tools they generate an surroundings that invigorates our perception.
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