Suggestion in Education ...

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Printed at the University of Chicago Press, 1900 - 56 sider

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Side 40 - But he who desires to inflict rational punishment does not retaliate for a past wrong which cannot be undone; he has regard to the future, and is desirous that the man who is punished, and he who sees him punished, may be deterred from doing wrong again.
Side 16 - Association, so far as the word stands for an effect, is between THINGS THOUGHT OF — it is THINGS, not ideas, which are associated in the mind. We ought to talk of the association of objects, not of the association of ideas. And so far as association stands for a cause, it is between processes in the brain — it is these which, by being associated in certain ways, determine what successive objects shall be thought.
Side 35 - ... performed while he seems least to be instructing. To apprehend these fugitive and subtile forces, playing through the business of education with such fine energy...
Side 44 - durance vile " for not learning " the little busy bee," who simply cannot give its small mind to the task, whilst disturbed by stern commands and threats of yet severer punishment for a disobedience it cannot help ; when a suggestion kindly and skilfully adapted to its automatic nature, by directing the turbid current of thought and feeling into a smoother channel, and guiding the activity which it does not attempt to oppose, shall bring about the desired result, to the surprise alike of the baffled...
Side 16 - ... the abrupt entrance from without into consciousness of an idea or image which becomes a part of the stream of thought and tends to produce the muscular and volitional effects which ordinarily follow upon its presence.
Side 22 - is the reproduction of what one has seen another do." It is therefore always to some extent an act of assimilation. Even if we extend the meaning of imitation so as to include unconscious mimicry and all phenomena akin to hypnotic suggestion, still it is self-activity that does the imitating.
Side 19 - Psychology," vol. ii. p. 601. the other bodily phenomena which have been called direct consequences of the trance-state itself, are not such. They are products of suggestion, the trance-state having no particular outward symptoms of its own ; but without the trance-state there, those particular suggestions could never have been successfully made.
Side 35 - ... 2d. That this unconscious tuition is yet no product of caprice, nor of accident, but takes its quality from the undermost substance of the teacher's character. And 3d. That as it is an emanation...
Side 19 - By suggestion is meant the intrusion into the mind of an idea; met with more or less opposition by the person ; accepted uncritically at last; and realized unreflectively, almost automatically.
Side 17 - Strictly speaking, suggestion is an operation producing a given effect on a subject by acting on his intelligence. Every suggestion essentially consists in acting on a person by means of an idea; every effect suggested is the result of a phenomenon of ideation, but it must be added that the idea is an epi-phenomenon...

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