Talks to teachers on psychology, and to students on some of life's ideals

William James

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• Psychology
• Life

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• Langue: English
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ALKS TO TEACHE|IS
N PSYCHOLOGY: AND TO
TUDENTS ON SOME OF LIFE S
)EALS. WILLIAMBy JAMESWorks WILLIAM Ph. etby JAMES, M.D.,
the InstiLitt.D.,LL.D.; Correspondentof
tute France and the Prussianof of Royal
A Sciences ; Philocademy of Professor of
at Harvard University.sophy
The of 2 vols.Principles 8vo.Psychology.
New York : Holt& Co.Henry 1890.
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ures delivered at inEdinburgh 1901-1902.
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The Remains of James.Literary Henry
with an WILLIAMEdited, Introduction, by
With Portrait. Crown 8vo. Boston :JAMES.
Mifflin& Co.Houghton, 1885.TO TEACHERSTALKS
ON PSYCHOLOGY: AND TO
STUDENTS ON SOME OF LIFES
IDEALS. WILLIAMBy JAMES
NEW YORK
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BY
WILLIAM JAMESPREFACE.
IN 1892 I was asked the Harvardby Corporation
to a few lectures on to thegive public psychology
teachers. The talks now form theCambridge printed
substance of that which has since then beencourse,
delivered at various to various teacher-audiplaces
ences. I have found that whatby experience my
hearers seem least to relish is
analytical technicality,
and what most care for is concretethey practical
So I have weeded out theapplication. gradually
and left the latter unreduced and thatformer, ; now,
I have at last written out the containlectures, they
a minimum of what is deemed scientific in psy
and are and in the exchology, practical popular
treme.
Some of shake theirmy colleagues may possibly
heads at this but in cue from what has
; taking my
seemed to me to be the of the audiences I befeeling
lieve that I am book so as to theshaping my satisfy
more need.genuine public
of will miss the minuteTeachers, course, divisions,
and the lettered and numsubdivisions, definitions,
bered the variations of and all theheadings, type,IV PREFACE
on which are accusother mechanical artifices they
to their minds. But main desire hastomed prop my
been to make them if reconceive, and, possible,
in their theimagination,produce sympathetically
mental life of their as the sort of activepupil unity
which he himself feels it to be. He doesn t chop
himself into distinct andprocesses compartments;
and it would have frustrated this ofdeeper purpose
book to make it when like a Baelook, printed,my
deker s handbook of travel or a text-book of arithme
far as books liketic. So this book force theprinted
of the facts the teacher s attenfluidity upon young
so far I am sure tend to do his intellecttion, they
a even leave unsatisfiedservice, though they may
a without itscraving altogether legitimate(not
for more andnomenclature,grounds) head-lines,
subdivisions.
Readers with onbooksacquainted my larger Psy
will meetmuch familiar In thechology phraseology.
on and Ihabit have evenchapters memory copied
several but I do not know thatpages verbatim,
is needed for such as this.apology plagiarism
The talks to which conclude thestudents, volume,
were written in to invitations to deliverresponse
addresses to students at women s Thecolleges.
first one was to the class of the Bostongraduating
Normal School of it contin-Gymnastics. Properly,