Nature Study: Its Psychology, Method and Matter (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Silcox, Sidney Sheddon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332555462 ISBN 13 : 9781332555468

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Nature Study: Its Psychology, Method and Matter

The process of remaking experience is inseparably united with expression. This process is from the vague to the definite, from real to ideal. This latter expression is apt to be misinterpreted unless restated in other words. We mean by it here that education is a process by which the individual becomes more and more independent of material things as a stimulus to thought and in expressing thought. Thought and expression cannot be divorced. The power of expres sion, though conditioned by thought, is yet the means by which thought is made definite, and is thus communicated to others.

The growth of mind is a process of ysis followed by synthesis. A child should not be allowed to yze anything without following up that mental process by an act of synthesis, i. E., expression. The expression is the ible Sign by which we can value the thought, and it determines the nature and the extent of ysis of the material of study.

This correlation of ysis and synthesis is so fundamentally important that the psychology of any subject is necessarily dependent upon it. A basket may be yzed and if so, one should be made like it. Natural objects are yzed, often the only possible synthesis is a drawing of the object, but this form of expression is possible to any great extent, only after eight years of age. To determine the extent of the ysis which may be made at any age, we have only to determine the power of expression possible at that age. A child is quite able to yze, that is, to tear to pieces, mechanically, a delicate flower, but if he is unable to represent this ysis, either by a drawing, by a model, or by words, the ysis is a waste of time; nay, worse, it gives the destructive bent of the mind an imus, which, unbalanced as it is by constructive ability, can lead only to mental dissipation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332555462
• ISBN 13: 9781332555468
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 52
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