A collection of essays drawn from William James's lectures on psychology for teachers, offering practical reflections on habit, attention, memory, and the mental life of pupils. The second part addresses students on ideals, conduct, and the value of a thoughtful life. It invites listeners to consider education and character with humane, accessible insight.
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TALKS TO TEACHERS ON PSYCHOLOGY: AND TO STUDENTS ON SOME OF LIFE'S IDEALS, By WILLIAM JAMES NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1925 COPYRIGHT, 1899, 1900 BY WILLIAM JAMES PRESS OF GEO. H. ELLIS CO. (INC.) BOSTON PREFACE. In 1892 I was asked by the Harvard Corporation to give a few public lectures on psychology to the Cambridge teachers. The talks now printed form the substance of that course, which has since then been delivered at various places to various teacher-audiences. I have found by experience that what my hearers seem least to relish is analytical technicality, and what they most care for is concrete practical application. So I have gradually weeded out the former, and left the latter unreduced; and now, that I have at last written out the lectures, they contain
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