Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.
William JamesVolition . . . takes place only when there are a number of conflicting systems of ideas, and depends on our having a complex field of consciousness.
William JamesNo reception without reaction, no impression without correlative expression, -this is the great maxim which the teacher ought never to forget.
William James