Teaching Shop Work: A Handbook for Instructors in Vocational SchoolsGinn, 1924 - 238 pages |
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Page 169 - Food getting and protective responses. 1. Eating. 2. Reaching, grasping, and putting objects into the mouth. 3. Acquisition and possession. 4. Hunting. 5. Collecting and hoarding. 6. Avoidance and repulsion. 7. Rivalry and cooperation. 8. Habitation.
Page 131 - Every temptation resisted, is an enemy subdued ; and " he that ruleth his own spirit, is better than he that taketh a city.
Page 174 - ... the sensations, feelings, and judgments resulting from the delicate adjustment of an almost infinite number of nerve fibres which in themselves are a part of the physical body. One may have at birth a plentiful supply or a poor supply of potential nerve endings which are ready to be organized and coordinated by experience and training, but unless one has the opportunity to learn from study and experience, the desirable connections may never be developed. The maximum capacity of the mind in any...
Page 164 - The neurones concerned in the behavior of a single man probably exceed in number by a thousand-fold all the telephone lines* in the world, and a description of the details of their arrangement, if such were known, would be an almost endless task.
Page 52 - There seem to be certain physiological rhythms that may disturb the learning process whose cause cannot be directly determined, but generally the feeling of unfitness can be traced to a simple cause, such as physical illness, loss of sleep, exercise, or food, or undue emotional strain.1 MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY What determines the journeyman standard of 800 ems per hour for hand composition in...
Page 45 - Three principles accompany this theory: (1) the law of readiness. (2) the law of exercise, and (3) the law of effect.
Page 133 - English Department, Polytechnic High School, San Bernardino, California "Why should I teach?" I ask. "Is it for gold— That shining, glistening gold which men since time Began have loved, then cursed, have hoarded to Their bosom, ere long finding it an asp Envenomed, bringing only torturing death? For gold, just gold?" My soul makes answer, "Nay! For that alone, the price is far too great. Thy recompense in coin cannot be named Because its substance is a finer thing, Enduring when the visible has...
Page 178 - The hypothesis of the variability of the germs explains the fact that short parents may have tall sons; gifted parents, stupid sons ; the same parents, unlike sons.
Page vi - Self-Estimate Chart ; to Miss Clara Louise Dentler, of the Polytechnic High School, San Bernardino, California, and to the editor of the Journal of the National Education Association, for permission to reprint the poem " Why Should I Teach ?
Page 180 - ... Macmillan Company, New York. TEAD. Instincts in Industry. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. THORNDIKE. Educational Psychology. Teachers College, New York City. TRABUE and STOCKBRIDGE. Measure your Mind. Doubleday, Page and Company, New York. WARREN. Human Psychology. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. YOAKUM and YERKES. Army Mental Tests. Henry Holt and Company, New York. III. SENSE PERCEPTION APPLIED TO SHOP WORK It must not be supposed that native qualities alone fix and determine one's career.