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Teaching Application

The teacher's art consists in bringing about the substitution or complication, and success in the art presupposes a sympathetic acquaintance with the reactive tendencies natively there. (William James, Talks to Teachers)

And since this, under any circumstances, is what we always tend to become, it follows first of all that the teacher's prime concern should be to ingrain into the pupil that assortment of habits that shall be most useful to him throughout his life. Education is for behavior, and habits are the stuff of which behavior consists. (William James, Talks to Teachers)

I have found by experience that what learners seem least to relish is analytical technicality, and what they most care for is concrete practical application. (William James)

You should regard your professional task as if it consisted chiefly and essentially in training the pupil to behavior; taking behavior, not in the narrow sense of his manners, but in the very widest possible sense, as including every possible sort of fit reaction on the circumstances into which he may find himself brought by the vicissitudes of life. (William James, Talks to Teachers)

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