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Show 1'ngnaclty an Educator. CAs imitation slides into emulation, 80 emulation slides Into ambition, and "mbltlou connects itself closely with Pugnacity and pride, says Prof. Wll- ilain James In tho Maroh Atlantic, nsequuntly, theso five InstiootivH tendencies form an lutor-connected group of factors, hard to separate In " termination of a great deal-of our Yi 0d.Uct- Tho ambitious Impulse wnuid perhaps bo tho best name for W'ewnolo group. Pride and pngnuolty have often been Pomldercd unworthy pawlona to ap-Peal ap-Peal o In tho young. Hut In their f'ore refined and noble forms thoy play great part in the sphpolroom and In "ucatlon generally, being In some "tac.ters most potent Vpur to effort fuguscHy need not bcv thought of merely In tho form of phvlcal com-hatlvencss- It can bo taken In the lenfeof agenoul unwillingness to bo l.Otten by any kind of dlffleully. It Is what mnkes us feol "slumped" and clinllongcd by arduous achievements, nnd Is crseptlu) to a spirited ntid niter-,prlslng niter-,prlslng eharaclcr. Yo Imvo hud of Jate too much nr tliq philosophy of ten-dernefs ten-dernefs In education; "Interest" must I'm nsldnously awakened In cveiy-ihlncr, cveiy-ihlncr, dllllculties must bo smoothed away. Sufi pedagogics lmvo taken Iho place or the old steep and rocky path to learning, But from i tils lukewarm air tlm bracing oxygon of effort. Is lefp ojit. Jt Is nnnsono to Mipposo that every step In education ran bo Interesting. Tho lighting Impulse Im-pulse must often bo appealed to. Mako Hie pupil feel ashamed of being "Beared" nt fractions, of being "downed" by the law or falling bodies, rouse his pugnacity ntid pride, nnd he will rush at Iho difllcu t places "with a cort or Inner nngor tit hlmselr that is ono or his ben mdral faculties. A victory scored under such conditions becomes a' turning-point nnd crises of Ins character. It lepresonts tho high water mark of his powers, nui serves thereafter as an ideal pattern for his self-Iniltnilon. Thu Icaehor who ncvpr rouses tills sort of pugnacious excite? iiieni In his pupils rails short or ono of his best forms of usefulness. Prof. Wllla"m James In tho Much Atlantic |