Instinct As Related To Education

Author : John Milton McLndoo
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331204145
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Instinct as Related to Education (Classic Reprint) written by John Milton McLndoo and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Instinct as Related to Education The question, "What shall we teach?" cannot be answered until after we have solved the problem of the spontaneous or native interests of the child. These native interests are determined by the innate or instinctive tendencies which function in the child according to pre-established laws laid down in his nervous system. On this point, McDougall, in his Social Psychology, says: "The human mind has certain innate or inherited tendencies which are. the essential springs or motive powers of all thought and action, whether individual or collective, and are the bases from which the character and will of individuals and of nations are gradually developed under the guidance of the intellectual faculties." If we could take any adult mind and remove the last accretion added to it, and the next, and so on till we came to the center of the complex accretions of years, we should find the very first firmly adhering to a native interest. If we could be permitted to continue this analysis of mental growth we should find these native interests as having resulted from the functioning of innate or instictive tendencies. These innate tendencies are the child's inheritance from the past, and, as stated above, evolve in him according to pre-established laws laid down as engrams in his nervous system. As these instinctive tendencies evolve, they function as native interests. Since this is racial, rather than individual, it is true of every normal child. Education must wait upon the genetic functioning of these innate tendencies, and through the native interests thus evolved, must find its way of approach to the child. The work of educating the child is not the work of storing his mind with facts, but rather is it the work of furnishing the proper stimuli for his innate tendencies - to cause them to function properly and normally during their nascent periods. 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.