Welcome to the third chapter of the book. This section will deal with those classes of our readers who are in immediate need of a memory boost – students. Though the previous chapters are equally helpful for those pursuing any course in education, this chapter is more specific in nature when it comes to proving […]

It is a fact that your body is directly related to your mental health. Your memory is not going to enhance itself. You are going to have to do it, and one of the proven techniques is to make sure that your body is in prime form. I am not talking about hitting the gym

The power to grow depends upon the need for others and plasticity. Both of these conditions are at their height in childhood and youth. Plasticity or the power to learn from experience means the formation of habits. Habits give control over the environment, and power to utilize it for human purposes. Habits take the form

We have had so far but little to say in this chapter about education. We have been occupied with the conditions and implications of growth. If our conclusions are justified, they carry with them, however, definite educational consequences. When it is said that education is development, everything depends upon how development is conceived. Our net

We have already noted that plasticity is the capacity to retain and carry over from prior experience factors which modify subsequent activities. This signifies the capacity to acquire habits or develop definite dispositions. We have now to consider the salient features of habits. In the first place, a habit is a form of executive skill,

In directing the activities of the young, society determines its own future in determining that of the young. Since the young at a given time will at some later date compose the society of that period, the latter’s nature will largely turn upon the direction children’s activities were given at an earlier period. This cumulative