Show M nn r 5 TilE lor or the tho Cultivation oj o tho und and th Imagination from Lectures L Given GIvon in jj Pay l jy nt tho L D S 5 University r nj IU T l tile the Editor I The Th following simple directions for tor tit Improvement of ot tho memory ami the contain no to or to special of o tiny kind This rith does not In for tor what IB l I hero here given glon la is substantially nil that can Via iu safely rec ree ommen T Tho ho ol Ly IY bolow was VOl d In n y a Il t student as n I B of the tho class cIas In psychology on these topics t I think they th will b of ot if Interest value to the H reader Truly yours J 3 II H PAUL THAWING THE The Tho training of nt tho the m in powers In g Is la heft beat b st accomplished hed through tho the training ot of the will the ot of attention which la Is g the tuft that memory Is made off lIet Is I tho the heeL bent to begin the Do training of ot tho the memory Fullers ruled rule were erel 1 Pay l y close clee attention 0 2 soundly what thou re reo 3 link thy together er rules zulee ruh s ate nr the thu sum BUM of ot what la JR i known about memory training except recent psychology fI hue has moro more fully explained tho the ot of rule rulo three thre We Wo YI now flow no know that hint nil alt rhenium In hi memory ti on the Ihl fact t every overy Idea vt VI have haveIs Is related to other by u s and antI that any readily be he Idea hot no u o associated cannot remembered An Idea IdelL not associated with Ith others la te not built In to our fabric of ot knowledge lind Is la like n II elena stono tho the mason thaon cannot buIld Into Inlo the UW wall It Is III riot not only ot of no ma use but ID IN likely to be 0 In the tho WilY fly The rho easiest WilY WaY to teach new therefore In Is t to 10 indent thorn thoin as ns related to or 01 growing out nut ot of what In Is It already Of ot new ne fact t Is Ia to former knowledge by several or ot many litany It In III 1 Unit linIc United ed d an ae It were to the former knowledge 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ideas Ilens together BO so o that the lime mention of or one still bring others in into into to This In Is Ini in proved by II any studies In which tho the facts tn I I aro are grouped Into related wholes whole or orInto orInto orInto Into of ot coherent groups Memory Is la best cultivated l In youth The verbal memory Is beet I st cui cul cultivated under r the neo ago of 14 H A pcr ler learn tho the words of or his hili mother tongue can ean Ih memorize selections and can learn foreign languages under 14 moro morn ea lIy titan than at nt any f time dm Attention and memory training tra i should be tiju chief aim of tary tat schools s but as both these powers wv I lire are mined through tile the will they Ih Y should be trained chiefly by giving tile the student complete things to to 10 work at nt Which involve nil all the tho powers of mind and body bud TIC The Th verbal memory and tho tile memory for sounds and IB Is be beet t trained In III early eaily life anti and can cn bo be b trained at lit this time by br repetition though repetition r alone li is liu IJU isa u a ory very method methol Th power to learn word w rd and to recall burt bare nf r the 1111 age of 21 Hut lut th Vowel power to associate und mind ant to 10 to 11 knowledge In Iii newer and b bett BOW on Oil until old Impairs the tile fatuities OK Ol l l l i Th lh Imagination to III the must most i cal aliI tit ff t the of ot time the mind It Id us II not mil miltha nu the tha highest power hilt bUt the powers are aro upon It for tor or their rials Th UKe o ot the time Imagination In cr effort and the formation of huts lui not always alwayn bin gUI gul shed hl In the past from fro the ol oX o ot this t l power flower In ill or ot lay day dream big UK The former requires conc e tia I tion the th latter go goes on Oil without I tory tIme tho th firmer has hall u a definite Vur oA the Is without aim Since these activities t were ere ero nut not ll and amid since bile dreaming was tae known to 10 bo be harmful harm till In It u that the ImaginatIve pow Jaw Jawor Cr T or be bo sternly and not cultivated by exercise Even today tollay most people II tho the worth of Qt an un Imaginative child The true truo view how hol however holIer ever Ier Is U timie faculty Is II the tho queen of 01 the Urn mental power and Its due exer clue ile a It matter of ot tile HIP Importance Perceptions are ure the materials with willi which the works they are arc tIle the ilot and bear beam fruit In n action Wo Ve nn lIn only Imagine such uch things 8 a Its liS we wc have per ceIell The fhe can cnn no nora moro mark without w abundant Without tItan than the tho IsraelItes I could make brick without straw tra The Tho Is always abundant In Utah streams clouds hills forests lowers rookH roche the th constellation nun ann acts are lire always at III hand hit they need n ll to bo ln pointed out nut and somewhat In early lIrly youth In III order to tl bu be available In later laler life Ufa OH a athe I I the till materials with which to W work uk Tho moro are aro tho tIme oil ih tile better tho the material tho tIme titIan atlon has hau to work with What are tho tIm bent beet studIes for tor cultivating tho tIm Imagination lion 1 7 1 Geography rightly taught ht not mot merely morel mILl map riia studies drawing memorizing memorizing izing but hut descrIptions description Imaginary etc Ibis His History tory tor mill arid the natural sciences romo next Oral descriptions and anil story tolling toiling are excellent So to anything or orto orto to or draw from memory nut Hut practice In writing li is tho ho best J It if It given to descriptions and narrations or the working out of 01 a u plot Bo So lb to read react halt half n a story and to Imagine time the rest reit of ot It and to eec Pt a picture of every eer battle we se read reach of ot of or every cIery village hill bill dale dalo or river Ono One ot it the best of or all nil Is to lIken ono one thing to another In lu metaphor or ur The Thu supreme power lower owr of the tile Imagination IH II to create an nn Ideal An Ideal IH Ia I a n perfect honed object character or ornet net perfectly beautiful than which we o can cnn Imagine nothing better Tho rho perfect object Is III Imagined by b the mechanic before ho Ito can ven even make an nn Imperfect one on A picture Is la Imagined b before he lie begins to tt paint the perfect hero bern or heroine WI by the tho novelist nov It the perfect I machine by the tIC Inventor lh tM tile perfect character by hy the time ambItious youth who to tobe tolie tobe be lie true trun run and noble And these thes Ideals make human program possible With nut them thim there 1 Is hI no rent real progress 14 ot of the time Individual or the race Time The crea erea creation tion 1101 of ot Ideals ideale U is one of ot the highest ot of the works work of or mind mini To the Ideal i t reality li is tho the next and anil greatest ts tack k JADIA WESTON |