It is much easier to grasp a concrete instance and apply analogous considerations to an analogous instance than to apprehend a general rule and proceed deductively | I should confine the teaching of literature, in early years, to the learning of parts for acting |
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Science has greatly increased our power of affecting the lives of distant people, without increasing our sympathy for them | I regard the cultivation of intelligence, therefor, as one of the major purposes of education |
This drives the organizer back to the mould, in order produce human beings who desire what he thinks good.
I was initially a little surprised as the majority of the book is concerned with education of character from an early age; it is not until the final 50 pages or so that formal schooling is discussed | Include that he is being asked to do something disagreeable to please you, and he will have a psychological resistance |
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In a very few minutes, after crying vigorously, he comes back and is invariably good: he understands that in coming back he has undertaken to be good | You do not mind, because you have not seen the children, and an abstract stimulus cannot move you |
In short, whilst probably not the best starting point for someone new to Russell, given my interest in the field of education I found it highly engaging and enjoyable.
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