The Mind and Its Education. George Herbert Betts

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       George Herbert Betts

      The Mind and Its Education

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664109064

Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I

       THE MIND, OR CONSCIOUSNESS

       CHAPTER II

       ATTENTION

       CHAPTER III

       THE BRAIN AND NERVOUS SYSTEM

       CHAPTER IV

       MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AND MOTOR TRAINING

       CHAPTER V

       HABIT

       CHAPTER VI

       SENSATION

       CHAPTER VII

       PERCEPTION

       CHAPTER VIII

       MENTAL IMAGES AND IDEAS

       CHAPTER IX

       IMAGINATION

       CHAPTER X

       ASSOCIATION

       CHAPTER XI

       MEMORY

       CHAPTER XII

       THINKING

       CHAPTER XIII

       INSTINCT

       CHAPTER XIV

       FEELING AND ITS FUNCTIONS

       CHAPTER XV

       THE EMOTIONS

       CHAPTER XVI

       INTEREST

       CHAPTER XVII

       THE WILL

       CHAPTER XVIII

       SELF-EXPRESSION AND DEVELOPMENT

       INDEX

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CHAPTER I

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THE MIND, OR CONSCIOUSNESS

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      We are to study the mind and its education; but how? It is easy to understand how we may investigate the great world of material things about us; for we can see it, touch it, weigh it, or measure it. But how are we to discover the nature of the mind, or come to know the processes by which consciousness works? For mind is intangible; we cannot see it, feel it, taste it, or handle it. Mind belongs not to the realm of matter which is known to the senses, but to the realm of spirit, which the senses can never grasp. And yet the mind can be known and studied as truly and as scientifically as can the world of matter. Let us first of all see how this can be done.

      1. HOW MIND IS TO BE KNOWN

      The Personal Character of Consciousness.—Mind can be observed and known. But each one can know directly only his own mind, and not another's. You and I may look into each other's face and there guess the meaning that lies back of the smile or frown or flash of the eye, and so read something of the mind's activity. But neither directly meets the other's mind. I may learn to recognize your features, know your voice, respond to the clasp of your hand; but the mind, the consciousness, which does your thinking and feels your joys and sorrows, I can never know completely. Indeed I can never know your mind at all except through your bodily acts and expressions. Nor is there any way in which you can reveal your mind, your spiritual self, to me except through these means.

      It follows therefore that only you can ever know you and only I can ever know I in any first-hand and immediate way. Between your consciousness and mine there exists a wide gap that cannot be bridged. Each of us lives apart. We are like ships that pass and