09 JAN 2017 by ideonexus
Distopian View Praising Second-Hand Knowledge
The first of these was the abolition of respirator.
Advanced thinkers, like Vashti, had always held it foolish to visit the surface of the earth. Air-ships might be necessary, but what was the good of going out for mere curiosity and crawling along for a mile or two in a terrestrial motor? The habit was vulgar and perhaps faintly improper: it was unproductive of ideas, and had no connection with the habits that really mattered. So respirators were abolished, and with them, of course, the ter...06 JUN 2012 by ideonexus
The Importance of Habit in Youth
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious up- risings of the poor. It alone prevents the hardest and most repulsive walks of life from being deserted by those brought up to tread therein. It keeps the fisherman and the deck-hand at sea through the winter ; it holds the miner in his darkness, and nails the countryman to his log- cabin and...Education must instill good habits in people while they are young so that the individual does not get hardened into an immoral state when they are older.
30 NOV -0001 by ideonexus
How a Lack of Vocabulary Can Turn a Child Off to a Subject
Consider the case of a child I observed through his eighth and ninth years. Jim was a highly verbal and mathophobic child from a professional family. His love for words and for talking showed itself very early, long before he went to school. The mathophobia developed at school. My theory is that it came as a direct result of his verbal precocity. I learned from his parents that Jim had developed an early habit of describing in words, often aloud, whatever he was doing as he did it. This habit...Folksonomies: phonetics
Folksonomies: phonetics
Case study of a child strong in verbal skills, but mathphobic because the skills did not translate, despite the fact that they should have. Math-proficient children can be turned off by the illogic of English.