Science-Teaching in the Schools: An Address Delivered Before the American Naturalists (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Another reason for this reform, though less Obvious, is perhaps even more important. A sound system of education must take account of the natural order of development Of the mental faculties. Nor need we be in any doubt as to what that order is. The perceptive faculties are the earliest to be developed; later come into activity the powers of abstract thought; later still does consciousness become reflective, and reveal the world of mind. The attention Of a healthy and normally developing child is given almost exclusively to the phenomena of the external world. The questions which he asks his parents and other adult friends (if he has not been snubbed too many times in such questioning) relate almost exclusively to objects of sense around him. There are, indeed, miraculous children who speculate about the' nature of the soul almost before they molt the long dresses of baby hood; but such children usually die of precocious genius or early piety on the brain, and may therefore be disregarded in any discussion of general education. Young children in process of normal development are what some one has called the Buddhists - unconscious materialists. They do not disbelieve in a spiritual world; they ignore it.

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