...throughout life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists. . . . the great thing in all education is to make our nervous...upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard...

...contrive to get the things they wear will be for him a mystery till his dying day. The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our...upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the...

...Versatility: The Extra Dimension In 1914, psychologist William James wrote, "The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy."1 How easily the same thing could be said of social style! Those who have made their social...

...go through their customary evolutions at the sound of the bugle call. . . . The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our...upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the...

...thoughtless habit, first in The Principles of Psychology and later in his Talks to Teachers when he said, "The great thing ... in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. . . . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism,...

...processing. William James lucidly described this processing in 1896: The great thing ... in all education is to ... fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and...upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the...

...ordinance, and save the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor." "The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy..." For this "we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can,...

...HABIT-MIND Professor William James, the well-known teacher of, and writer upon Psychology. very truly says : "The great thing in all education is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can....

...study and behavior. The best answer probably is that there is no best general answer. James urges us "to make our nervous system our ally instead of our...upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can." 12 This quote is also...

...1950: Vol. 1. 121. u The great thing. . in all education, is to make mir neiI'ous system our ulli/ instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize...and live at ease upon the interest of the fund For tins ue must make automatic und habitual. as early as possihle. us many useful actions as we can, and...