It is only the fundamental conceptions of psychology which are of real value to a teacher.
William JamesThe only function that one experience can perform is to lead into another experience; and the only fulfillment we can speak of isthe reaching of a certain experienced end. When one experience leads to (or can lead to) the same end as another, they agree in function.
William JamesIt is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William JamesWe must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life.
William James