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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 27

First Course

First Course.

Course of ten lectures on Mental Science for Teachers, by James Sully, M.A., Examiner in Mental and Moral Science in the University of London.

I.—Science of Mind and its bearing on Education—Three-fold division of Mind: Feeling, Knowing, and Willing—Laws of Mental Operation—Nervous conditions of Mental activity—Attention and Mental Life.
II.—Development of Mind on the side of Feeling, of Knowing, and of Willing—Order of Development of Faculties—Native or original Capability—Principles of Heredity.
III.—Sense-knowledge—Five Senses and muscular Sense—Discrimination of Sense-impressions—How the Child learns to refer Impressions to External Objects—Perception—Observation—On the training of the Observing Powers of Children—Kindergarten Exercises, &c.
IV.—Reproductive Imagination or Memory—Laws of Association—Attention and Repetition—Conditions of Memory—Varieties of Memory—Learning by Rote—Mnemonics.
V.—Productive or Constructive Imagination—Imagination and Discovery—Inventiveness—Fancy—Play and its uses—Imaginative Literature.
VI.—Conception, or the formation of Concepts—Comparison—Abstraction and Generalization—Names—Resemblances—The Art of Questioning, and the Definition of Names.
VII.—Judgment and Reasoning—Analysis and Synthesis—Inductive and Deductive Reasoning—Cause—Applying rules to new cases—Exercise of Reasoning Power by Mathematics, Natural Science, &c.
VIII.—Second Division of Mind, Feeling—Laws of Pleasure and Pain—Classification of the Emotions—Children's Feelings—On the cultivation of Emotion—Sympathy—Taste—The Moral and Religious Sentiment.page 54
IX.—The active side of Mind, or Will—The beginnings of Action—Reflex and Instinctive Movement—Spontaneous Movement—Association, and the acquisition of new Actions—Imitation—Obedience—The Formation of Habits.
X.—Higher stages of Will-growth—Development of Motives—Deliberation and Choice—Subordination of lower to higher Motive—Formation of Moral Habits—Character—Discipline and its uses.