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Excerpt from The Principles and Methods of Human Culture: A Series of Lectures Addressed to Young Teachers; Part I. Intellectual Education; II. Moral Education
The attentive study and Observation of the natural workings of the mind, in the successive stages of its progress, from incipient intelligence to maturity of reason, imply, however, not merely a care ful analysis of the facts and modes of mental action, but a watchful observation, with a view to detect, in all cases, the moving power or impelling principle of action, to aid and regulate which is the educator's chief work. The ceaseless intellectual activity of child hood, maintained through the various media of perception, furnished by the organs of sense, is obviously stimulated by the constitutional principle of curiosity, an eager desire to know and understand, and therefore, to observe and examine. Hence the irrepressible and search ing questions with which children, in the instinct Of faith, appeal to whomsoever they think can satisfy their craving for information.
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