XV.—THE STREAM OF THOUGHT IN WRITING, SPEAKING, AND ORAL READING 239

XVI.—KINDS OF THINKING 255

XVII.—THINKING AND KNOWING 269

XVIII.—THINKING AND FEELING 289

XIX.—THINKING AND WILLING 303

XX.—THINKING AND DOING 317

XXI.—THINKING IN THE ARTS 331

XXII.—THINKING AND THE HIGHER LIFE 341

I

MAKE THE PUPILS THINK

The value of a thought cannot be told.

BAILEY.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; he who dares not is a slave.

BYRON.

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts in this lower world.

WATTS.

Man is not the prince of creatures, But in reason. Fail that, he is worse Than horse, or dog, or beast of wilderness.

FIELD.

Man is a thinking being, whether he will or no. All he can do is to turn his thoughts the best way.

SIR W. TEMPLE.

I

MAKE THE PUPILS THINK

For the purpose of testing the quality of gold alloy jewellers formerly used a fine-grained dark stone, called the touchstone. In the eyes of an educator good instruction is more precious than pure gold. The touchstone by which he tests the quality of instruction, so as to distinguish genuine teaching from its counterfeit, rote teaching, is thinking. The schoolmaster who teaches by rote is satisfied if the pupils repeat his words or those of the book; the true teacher sees to it that the pupils think the thoughts which the words convey.