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The Child: His Thinking, Feeling, and Doing

 By Amy Eliza Tanner

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Child-Study, N. Y. Appleton, nerve cells
141
Starbuck, Porcupine fish, University of Chicago
231
Herbartian, nonsense rhymes, University of Chicago
252
nerve-cells, chain rhymes, N. Y. Appleton

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Play is the purest, most spiritual activity of man at this stage, and, at the same time, typical of human life as a whole — of the inner hidden natural life in man and all things. It gives, therefore, joy, freedom, contentment, inner and outer rest, peace with the world. It holds the sources of all that is good. - Page 392

During the period 1870-1892, 16 per cent, of the men and 12 per cent, of the women who registered as Freshmen remained to graduate. - Page 180

Each linguistic stock must have originated in a single household. There was an Aryan family-pair, a Semitic family-pair, an Algonkin family-pair. And further, it is clear that the members of each family-pair began to speak together in childhood. - Page 326

This inquiry into origin and mode of production starts with the amiable presupposition that all things have been hand-produced after the manner of household possessions. The world is a sort of big house where everything has been made by somebody, or at least fetched from somewhere. - Page 156

the gamesome humor of childhood which is wisely adapted by nature to its age and temper, should be encouraged, to keep up their spirits and improve their health and strength. The chief art is to make all that children have to do, sport and play. - Page 392

... hunger and thirst were satisfied, or release from clothes, and the effect of the bath and rubbing on her circulation, increased the net sense of well-being. She felt slight and unlocated discomforts from fatigue in one position, quickly relieved by the watchful nurse. For the rest, she lay empty-minded, neither consciously comfortable nor uncomfortable, yet on the whole pervaded with a dull sense of well-being. Of the people about her, of her mother's face, of her own existence, of desire or... - Page 72

... head. Grandma turned and chirruped to her and the little one's jaw dropped and her eyebrows went up in an expression of blank surprise. Presently I began to swing her on my foot, and at every pause in the swinging she would sit gazing at the puzzling head till grandma turned, or nodded, or chirruped; then she would turn away satisfied and want more swinging. - Page 88

... by, that the purpose flowers grow for them to pick, that the rain is trying to plague them, and so on. We can realize how deep in human nature lies this tendency to make man the center of all things when we find the earliest men, the savage races of to-day, and even the civilized man himself doing the same thing. I fancy that there are few of us who have not at some time been thoroughly angry with some object or material that we could not control as we wished. In early times inanimate things... - Page 158

Kicking. Whole arm, body and hand movements. Dropping things. Blocks. Sand Plays, digging, piling, etc. Running, throwing, cutting and folding. Swinging. Shooting, guns, bows, slings, etc. Knife work. Tools of increasing complexity. Machinery. Sailing. Rowing. Swimming. - Page 406

It holds the sources of all that is good. A child that plays thoroughly, with self-active determination, perseveringly until physical fatigue forbids, will surely be a thorough, determined man, capable of self-sacrifice for the promotion of the welfare of himself and others. - Page 393

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