How to Teach by George Drayton Strayer;Naomi Norsworthy
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17. Why should drill work be discontinued when children grow tired and
cease to concentrate their attention? 18. Why should reviews be undertaken at the beginning of a year's work? How can reviews be organized to best advantage during the year? 19. What provision do you make in your work to guard against lapses? * * * * * V. HOW TO MEMORIZE There is no sharp distinction between habit and memory. Both are governed by the general laws of association. They shade off into each other, and what one might call habit another with equal reason might call memory. Their likenesses are greater than their differences. However, there is some reason for treating the topic of association under these two heads. The term memory has been used by different writers to mean at least four different types of association. It has been used to refer to the presence of mental images; to refer to the consciousness of a feeling or event as belonging to one's own past experience; to refer to the presence of connections between situation and motor response; and to refer to the ability to recall the appropriate response to a particular situation. The last meaning of the term is the one which will be used here. The mere flow of imagery is not memory, and it matters little whether the appropriate response be |
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