Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Habit and Its Importance in Education: An Essay in Pedagogical Psychology
Habit steadies and gives strength. Harmonious ideas are reenforced and discordant ones fade out. Character is slowly defined tact and taste take the place of memory and labored consciousness, as we turn over to our automaton what express volition had to do before. This residuum and deposit of schools and books, and even of experience, is the measure and standard of all educational values, and is even physically transmissible to succeeding generations.
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