The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
William JamesIn all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at one age, and other kinds of conception at a later age.
William JamesThere is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
William James