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The Story of the Mind

CHAPTER VIII
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A few pet animals are a valuable adjunct to any school museum.

If there be an industrial school or machine shop near at hand, try to get him interested in the way things are made, and encourage him to join in such employments.

A false generalization in the wheels of a cart supplies its own corrective very quickly, or in the rigging and sails of a toy boat.

Drawing from models is a fine exercise for such a youth, and drawing from life, as soon as he gets a little advanced in the control of his pencil.

All this, it is easy to see, trains his impulsive movements into some degree of subjection to the deliberative processes.
With this general line of treatment in mind, the details of which the reader will work out in the light of the boy's type, space allows me only two more points before I pass to the sensory scholar.
First, in all the teaching of the type of mind now in question, pursue a method which proceeds from the particular to the general.


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