Peg along / by George Lincoln Walton.

  • Walton, George Lincoln, 1854-1941.
Date:
[1915], ©1915
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Peg along / by George Lincoln Walton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE The aim of the educational method in mind-training is four fold. The first step is to impress the individual with the need of such training, the second to stimulate his desire for bet¬ terment, the third to make clear to him the nature and bearing of his faulty mental habits, the fourth to show him how they may be modified. The main obstacle in the way of this accomplishment is the attitude of the individual regarding his own mental status. However ready he may be to acknowledge poor memory, defective mathematical ability or weakened power of application, he balks at al¬ lowing, even to himself, that he is querulous, cranky and unreasonable. Each display of these characteristics, obvious and pitiful though it may be to the outsider, is amply justified in