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No reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
William James
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William James
Age: 68 †
Born: 1842
Born: January 11
Died: 1910
Died: August 26
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You perceive now, my friends, what your general or abstract duty is as teachers. Although you have to generate in your pupils a large stock of ideas, any one of which may be inhibitory, yet you must also see to it that no habitual hesitancy or paralysis of the will ensues, and that the pupil still retains his power of vigorous action.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
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But when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, whilst others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper spring of human personality to conduct the task.
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Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.
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Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
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The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.
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We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Lets take full advantage of this discovery
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.
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