The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-22

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will" Not that the will IS the only
| faculty To- I've trained, but that It's
right culture includes that of all other
faculties, but especially of the atten'
| ton aud memory. The German
maxim that the normal man IS Two
| thirds will and only One.third intel
Iect, illustrates the present tendency
| of philOsophic thought. No power Is
more susceptiable of discipline. None
needs more to be energized. Yet our
educational processes too seldom aim
to train the will. Many things are
done and more are permitted which
impair its vitality. When other laws
of memory fail, sheer determination
may firmly riviC facts in mind. THIS
very effort invigoTates the will ana
gives Il grateful consciousness of its
supremacy, and illustrates the motto
verisimilar il hyperbOlic, "There is no
difficulty to him who Wills"
4 Coexistent emotion quickens
memory. AS metals weld best at
white heat, so the facts or truths are
best remembered which awaken
Warmest Interest. The criminal on
trial for his life remembers every wit
ness and every word. The teachers
tact, skill aud resources are evinced
by the interest he awakens and the
enthusiasm he imParts. Youth need
inspiration even more than mere in
struction, or rather such instruction
as will enkindle- zeal in their work.
Such a cheerful impulse lubricates all
the movements of the mind, and
especially of the memory. JOY aud
b Ipe quicken this faculty, as gloom
aud encouragement suppress It's lie.
The happiest efforts are never the pro-
duct of uuimpassiOned Intellect.
Emotion is the celestial fire OF poetry
aud elOquence. But our educational
processes often address the intellect
only, and ignore the sensibilities, in
which are found the best dyuamics
of the mind. Without these forces,
the intellect illustrates q system of
states, or rather resembles a factory,
with no prOpelling power-its cards
aud jennieS and looms all still a. the
grave, while the engine is cold-but
kIudle q fire in the furnace beneath,
and lO, u thousand spindles and shut
ties resound with the choral din of ill.,
dustry. so, kindle glow in the SELL
and all the springs of mem
Dry are at once in motion.
5. Curiosity, or what is kindred,
love OF knowledge, is an important
factor in training the memory.
too often dormant, 1t may be
come one of the vital forces in eIuca-
lion. IL is especially fitted to develop
attention and memory. It prepares
the soil and fertiliZes the seeds of
truth. At first a restless instinct, it
under fit culture, into an in
Suitable desire aud sometimes becomes
\ ruling passion. Curiosity should be
70 the miud what appetite is to the !
body, creating a hungering for know !
edge, which is the minds food. Iu- |
Nf OF hn ffrl
create q craving for more. Love of !
ii>cOvery was a stroug passion with !
Newton as love OF conquest with |
Napoleon. Under its inspiration study |
IL a pleasure; without task.
8. Classification is one of the lead !
ng laws of memory. This principle |
8 disregarded when facts and details |,
ire learned without order or system. |
The. MUD thus crammed is like 8
urniture shop, where are chairs, !
"a bles, bureaus aud whatuots in con- |
usiOD. The value of classification is |
Illustrated by the remark OF all imin !
colleges, who claimed no natural /
of memory. "On my |
couch at night can recall the story, |
he room, the alcOvP, the shelf, aud |
he place on the shelf, of each of the
thousands Of minerals in our large |
abineC." Napoleon, when ques-
Toned as to the secret of his grasp of
memory, replied, "Have separate
Irawers and place each class of ,acts
u its own drawer" Quaint Thomas
FULLER says: "Marsba' thy nOtiuns
nto handsome method. One will |
AIRY twice more weight trussed and |
Jack. d up in bundles, than when 1t |
les Tapping and hanging about his !
hOulders. Things orderly fardled uu- !
Ter heads are most portable"
Oue's progress in real knowledge /
lepends not 70 much on the humber !
Il isolated facts lie learns, however
each may be, as On the ex-
ent aud value of their perceived rela-
ions. While the chilli must begin
With details, his interest both in OBJ
ervation and reflection grows in pro-
PORTION a. lie learns that all truth is
elated Many facts or principles I!
properly associated are more easily /
enemOered than aI.y one of them, IL !
entirely isolated. Our new Scquire-
nents day by day should be Apr, CT
ted mainly according to the new re-
atoms they disclose
The study Of nature fosters the
Iabit of classification. The child early
earns that everything is organic or
Inorganic. amt is comprised in the
hree fold division OF animal, VP2et-
.ble and mineral. CuyIer's four fold
livision of the animal kingdom
realty helps his memory in natural
history. The fact that everything IN
he vegetable kingdom is an Inside
grower or an outside grower facilitates
lis first observations in botany. The
anne principle is now happily applied
n the topical method in geography |
md other Studies.
Z. Drawing aud map drawing from
are now so generally taught,
Ind with such manifest gain in train
ng this faculty, as to require but
ingls word of concentration.
8. Both home and school reading |
erve as admirable drills of memory
where pupils are expected to give
'raIly, or in writing, abstracts of
heir reading. The expectation of
living an .epitome of the book one is
eading will increase his interest In