Making the Most of One's Mind/Index
A
Absorption, 129
Addison, 173, 255
"Allusive" writers, 106
Alsted, Johann Heinrich, 202
Alternative, fixing of the, 79
Analogy, 105
Analysis of Chapter IV, 237
Analytical note-taking, 229
Appeals for subject matter, 209
Apperception, 89 Area of attention, 132, 133
Areopagitica, 263
Aristotle, 179
Armstrong, Professor Henry E., 150
Arnold, Felix, 222
Ascham, Roger, 17, 18, 19. 157
Assimilation, 89
Associative listening. 217
Attention, classification and manipulation of, 123
Rhythm of, 130
Attitude, the potency of, 116
Audiles, 24, 25
B
Baedeker, 220
Bennett, Arnold, 162
Bible, 173, 200
Bibliographies, 208
Bi-polar process in lecturing, 214
Blake, William, 28
Block system, 71
Bookishness, 155
Books of reference, 188
Bookworms, 156
Bounder, 28
Brain, upper and lower, 12
Brewer, Dr. E. C., 197
Britannica Encyclopædia, 203, 204
Browning, 38, 165
Browsing, 172
"Brute" Memory, 61, 73
Buffon, 116
Burke, 150, 173
C
Calculation of probabilities at examinations, 273
Careless reading of examination questions, 282
Carlyle, 180
Chambers' Encyclopædia, 203, 206
Cholerics, 21
Clarke, Mrs. Cowden, 200
Committing to memory, 67
Complete detail method, 56
Conceit, 25, 27
Concentration beat, 131, 215
Range of, 132
Concordances, 199
Conscience, 44, 45, 49, 113, 174, 182, 187
Co-operative study, 111
Cranmer, 3
Cromwell, 148
Crusoe, Robinson, 226, 263
Curve of fatigue, 48, 49
D
D'Alembert, 139, 140
Dante, 223
Dative in Latin, 76
Deductive thinking, 100
Defoe, 263
Desk table, 114
Dialectic compositions, 257, 260
Dickens, 264
Dictation in lecturing, 228
Dictionaries and their uses, 189
English-foreign, 100
Rhyming, 197
Size of, 193
Supplementary dictionaries, 196
Dictionary, 168, 169, 171
Definition of, 200
Distinction from encyclopædia, 202, 203
Difference of opinions, cause of, 95
Difficulties, how to deal with, 137
Diffusion beat, 130, 216
Drummond, Professor, 149
E
Early rising, 114
Educand, 6
Educand to educator, 7, 32
Combination of educand and educator, 146
Educator, 6
External, 6
Elimination of external educator, 6
Elizabeth, Queen, 18
Empirics, 106
Encyclopædias, 202
Use of illustrated, 205
Ends and ideals, 30
Ends, need for clear, 122, 151
English-Latin dictionaries and their use, 191
Ennui, 53
Essay writing. 251
Essays as class exercises, 256
Euphues, 18
Examination as revision, 265
As test 267
Examination syllabuses, 270
Examination work, 92
Examiner, personality of, 273
Examiners as lecturers, 229
Expression, 84
F
Fabre, J. Henri, 29, 31, 140
Fact into faculty 84, 136
Failure, temporary, 140
Fatigue, 45
Pathological form of, 54
Fatigue curve, 48
Fatigue-producing effects, 52
Form and matter in composition, 254
Foster, 255
Free translation versus literal, 242
Freedom, 8, 31
Froebel, 84
Full marks at examinations, 281
Fumbling, 107, 151
G
Gaping point, the, 143, 151
Goldsmith, 39. 173, 255
Gravitation, law of, 85
Gray, 70
Grey, Lady Jane, 18
Guessing, 93, 98
H
Hamilton, Sir William, 228
Hamlet, 262
Hard Wits, 20, 57, 157
Harmsworth's Encyclopædia, 204, 206
Headstone, Bradley, 264, 267
Hearing distinguished from listening. 213
Henry VII, illustrative study of, 117
Herder, J. G., 159
Heuristic method, 149
Hints for the actual working of examination papers, 274
Home study, 36, 40
Humours, 21
Huxley, 234
Hypothesis, 99
I
Ideals, 38
Ideas, 86
Impression, 84
Inattention, 123, 216
Index, 186
Index to encyclopædia, 204
Inductive thinking, 100
Inference, 107
Inference stage, 141
Instalment system of memorizing, 66
Instruction, meaning and application, 218
Intercourse, 24, 25, 154, 155, 166, 178, 188, 189
Interest and its manipulation, 126
Introspection, 14
J
Jacotot, 29
Jesuits on lecturing, 228
Johnson, Dr., 169, 255
K
Kemsies, 52
Kipling, 198
Knowledge, three ways of acquiring, 24
Active and passive, 85
L
Lamb, Charles, 254
Latin propositions, 77
Laurie, Professor, 30
Laws of thought, as thought, 94, 99
Le Bon, Gustave, 11
Learning by rote of by heart, 67
Lecturer's notes in relation to student's notes, 236
Lectures as a means of communicating knowledge, 224
As distinguished from chapter in textbook, 225
Inspirational or didactic, 217
Lecturing, bi-polar, 214
Lecturing distinguished from teaching, 214
Lernfreiheit, 32
Lip movements in reading. 158
Listening distinguished from hearing, 213
Listening intermittent and rhythmical, 215
"Projection" in listening, 216
Locke, John, 96, 98, 200
Long-hand note-taking, 228
Looking before and after, 134
Loose sentence in lecturing, 226
Lotze, Professor, 22
M
Macaulay, Lord, 170
Mackay, Dr., 75
Manipulation of time at examination, 277
Map of England, 121
Marking books, 175
Mathematical limit, 38, 39
Melancholics, 21
Memoria technica, 74
Memories, kinds of, 24
Memory, effect of clean living on, 61
Improvement of in a certain direction, 65
Index of, 62
Management of, 60
Rational, 73
Training of, 73
Verbal, 72
Mental content, 85
Mental second wind, 54
Mental stock-taking, 265
Milton, 70
His vocabulary, 167, 264
Mnemon, 18
Mnemonics, 75, 81
Montaigne, 68
Moreri, Louis, 202
Motors, 22
Murray, Sir James A. H, 195
N
National Biography, the dictionary of, 262
New international encyclopædia, 207
Nones. 77
Note-making and its forms, 233
(a) Verbatim, 223
(b) Long-hand, 227
(c) Unsystematic or topical, 229
(d) Analytical, 231
Novel reading, 153
O
Objective self, 4, 17
Oblivescence, index of, 63, 222
Observation, 24
Observation stage, 142
Old examination papers, 273
Oratoriæ Institutiones, 19
Organization of lecture, 334
Over-fatigue, 46
Over-pressure, 45
P
Partnership in study, 11
Pecher, 80
Pecher, 80
Periodic sentence in lecturing, 226
Philekoos, 19
Philepainos, 19
Philomathes, 18
Philoponos, 18
Phlegmatics, 21
Pierce, Gilbert A., 200
Plato, 18, 179
Poets, two kinds of, 165
"Point" of an examination question, 281
Paint of view in composition, 253
Practical thinking, 107
Practice-effect, 47
Practice in note-taking, 233
Preaching, 214
Preferences of students, 24
Preferred sense, 23
Premises, 100
Preparation for examinations, 268
Priggishness, 27
Private student, the, 56, 112, 154, 183, 185
Problems, 91, 267
Recognition of, 138
Three stages in dealing with, 140
Professors and students, 179
Progress between lessons, 43, 66, 67
Purpose, in listening, 213
In reading, 173
In seeking knowledge, 91, 173
Q
Quick wits, 20, 57. 157
Quintilian, 19
R
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 218, 227
Rapid impression method, 56
Rational memories, 23
Reading, 24. 25
Desultory, 171
General, 170
Leisurely, 164
Lip movements in, 158
Marking books in, 175
Mechanism of, 156
Possibility of increased rate of, 162
Rate of, 157
Relation between speed and accuracy of, 163
"Silent," 150
To acquire tone, 173
Real living, 13
Reflexion, 3
Reflexive verbs, 3
Reports, 256
Republic, The, 17
Research, the beginnings of, with illustration, 210
The research method, 258, 260
Rhyme and rhythm in mnemonics, 77
Rhyming dictionaries, 197
Geographies and histories, 7
Robinson Crusoe, 226, 263
Roget's Thesaurus, 190
Room-sharing, 111
Rousseau, 150
Royal road to learning, 34, 138
Ruskin, 234
S
Sanguines, 21
Scaffolding, 76, 77, 81, 82, 136
School versus College, 32
Schoolmaster, The, 17, 20
Scott, 164
Self, subjective and objective, 4, 7, 10
Self-consciousness, 10, 11, 14, 26
Self-educated, 28, 33
Self-education, 28
Self-esteem, 16
Self-examination, 10, 14, 17, 26
Self-expression, 8
Self-questioning, 149
Self-realization, 8, 16, 17
Self-reference, 15
Selfishness, 15
Sensories, 22
Shakespeare, 134, 171
His vocabulary, 168
Shelley, 134, 166
"Shots" at examinations, 283
"Silent" reading, 159
Size of dictionaries, 193
Of encyclopædias, 203
Skeat, Professor W. W., 107
Skipping, 173
Smith, Dr. Walter C., 154
Socrates, 147, 148
Socratic irony, 147
Socratic method, 145
Solon, 16
Spencer, H., 84
Steele, 225
Stevenson, R. L., 257
"Stock" questions at examinations, 274
Stock-taking, personal, 17
Student's Manual, The, 137
Student, the private, 56, 112, 154, 183, 185
Student's attitude towards lecturing, 217
Notes in relation to lecturer's notes, 236
Students, external, 154
In relation to assimilative and constructive work, 91
Internal, 154
Two classes of, in relation to text-books, 183
Study, acquisitive (assimilative) and constructive. 88
In relation to physical comfort, 114
The test of, 119
Study period, length of, 50
Style suited for lecturing, 220
Subjective, 4
"Subjects," 301
Swing effect, 47, 49, 129
Synonyms, dictionaries of, 199
T
Tactiles, 24
Taking stock of oneself, 16, 17
Teacher, place of, between textbook and pupil, 180
Teaching, distinguished from lecturing, 214
Temperament, 20, 116
Tennyson, 164, 166, 172
Textbooks, 24, 165
Definition of, 178
Distinction from books of reference, 188
How to use, 186
Origin of, 178
Retention of old, 187
Two kinds of, according as subject or reader is more prominent, 184
Versus teacher, 183
Thackeray, 7, 98
Thinking, practical, 100, 107
The three stages of—thing, law, system, 134
Without words, 167
Thoroughness, 56, 135, 174
Thring, Edward, 116
Time, English and American, 81
Time-tables, 35
Danger of rigidity of, 44
Evening, 37
Order of subjects on, 42
Todd. Rev. John, 137, 138, 139, 143
Toga liberior, 1
Toga virilis, 1, 32, 41
Topical (or unsystematic) note-taking, 220
Translation, 241
Illustrative passage, 246
U
Uccello, 207
Unconscious cerebration, 67
Unit in learning by rote, 71
"Unseen" translation, 242, 245
V
Verbal memories, 23
Verbatim notes, 223
Visuals, 23, 25
Vocabularies, the three, reading, writing, and speaking, 169
Vocabulary of the English Bible, an educated Englishman, a Chinese historian, an illiterate peasant, 168, 169
Means of enriching, 170
W
Wagner, 52
Webster, 195, 200
Wells, H. G., 37
Whirlwinds, direction of, 80
Wits, quick and hard, 20, 57, 157
Words, 162
Work under fatigue, 53
"Writing up" notes, 231
Z
Zetetikos, 19