# Making the Most of One's Mind/Index

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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
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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
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Zetetikos, 19