10 Quotes by William James about art
- Author William James
-
Quote
The worst thing that can happen to a good teacher is to get a bad conscience about her profession because she feels herself hopeless as a psychologist.
- Tags
- Share
- Author William James
-
Quote
What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."
- Tags
- Share
- Author William James
-
Quote
The amount of psychology which is necessary to all teachers need not be very great.
- Tags
- Share
- Author William James
-
Quote
Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method which we are using as soon as we believe that it has theory as well as practice at its back.
- Tags
- Share
- Author William James
-
Quote
In teaching, you must simply work your pupil into such a state of interest in what you are going to teach him that every other object of attention is banished from his mind; then reveal it to him so impressively that he will remember the occasion to his dying day; and finally fill him with devouring curiosity to know what the next steps in connection with the subject are.
- Tags
- Share
- Author William James
-
Quote
Psychology is a science, and teaching is an art; and sciences never generate arts directly out of themselves.
- Tags
- Share
- Author William James
-
Quote
It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.
- Tags
- Share
- Author William James
-
Quote
Psychology ought certainly to give the teacher radical help.
- Tags
- Share
- Author William James
-
Quote
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
- Tags
- Share