The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and the first-rate teacher, by the keenness of the remoter interests which he is able to awaken, will provide abundant opportunities for its occurrence.


Talks to Teachers and Students (ed. 1900)

William James Quotes

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there;...

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there;...

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there;...

The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there;...