The story of the mind Author:James Mark Baldwin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: can be explained by this " suggestion " hypothesis. The Nancy school must be considered completely victorious apart from some facts which no theory has yet expla... more »ined. Hypnotism shows an. intimacy of interaction between mind and body to which current psychology is only beginning to do justice ; and it is this aspect of the whole matter which should be emphasized in this connection. The hypnotic condition of consciousness may be taken to represent the working of Suggestion most remarkably. CHAPTER VIII. THE TRAINING OF THE MIND—EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY. A Great deal has been said and written about the physical and mental differences shown by the young; and one of the most oft-repeated of all the charges which we hear brought against the current methods of teaching is that all children are treated alike. The point is carried so far that a teacher is judged from the way he has or has not of getting at the children under him as individuals. All this is a move in the right direction; and yet the subject is still so vague that many of the very critics who declaim against the similar treatment which diverse pupils get at school have no clear idea of what is needed; they merely make demands that the treatment shall suit the child. How each child is to be suited, and the inquiry still back of that, what peculiarity it is in this child or that which is to be " suited "—these things are left to settle themselves. It is my aim in this chapter to indicate some of the variations which are shown by different children ; and on the basis of such facts to endeavour to arrive at a more definite idea of what variations of treatment are called for in the several classes into which the children are divided. I shall confine myself at first to those differences which are more hereditary and c...« less