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Excerpt from The Primary Curriculum, Vol. 2: Edited and in Part Written "Mankind continually educates itself through the circle of thought which it begets." - Herbart. "I cannot too strongly urge you to acquire a habit of thinking of your pupils in associative terms... thinking of them (however else you may think of them besides) as so many little systems of associative (apperceptive) machinery... You will be astonished at the intimacy of insight into their operations and at the practicality of the results which yon will gain... Types of character are largely types of association... "If you wish to ensure the interest of your pupils there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas." - Professor James, Talks to Teachers. "To this day the majority. still fail to grasp completely the Herbartian truth, the fact that every human soul moves within its circle of idea, resisting enlargement, incapable indeed, if once it is adult, of any extensive enlargement, and that all effectual human progress can be achieved only through such enlargement. Only ideas cognate to the circle of ideas are assimilated or assimilable; ideas too alien, though you shout them in the ear, or thrust them in the face, remain foreign and incomprehensible." Mr. H. G. Wells, New Worlds for Old. "We are ideas, and cannot be separated from them." Professor J. Adams, Moral Education Congress, 1908. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.