[Led-users] as failed. And he has not

[Gaarsland G. <app...@bo...>]

He same acute critic of life said that half the clever people he knew
were under the impression that they were hated and envied, the other
half that they were admired and loved;--and that neither were right! The
imaginative faculty then is a species of self-representation, the power
of considering our own life and position as from the outside; from it
arise both the cheerful hopes and schemes of the sound mind, and the
shadowy anxieties and fears of the mind which lacks robustness. It
certainly does seem singular that this deep and persistent element in
human life is left so untrained and unregarded, to range at will, to
feed upon itself. All that the teacher does is to insist as far as
possible on a certain concentration of the mind on business at
particular times, and if he has ethical purposes at heart, he may
sometimes speak to a boy on the advisability of not allowing his mind to
dwell upon base or sensual thoughts; but how little attempt is ever made
to train the mind in deliberate and continuous self-control! The latest
school of pathologists, in the treatment of obsessed or insane persons,
pay very close attention to the subjects of their dreams, and attribute
much nerve-misery to the atrophy, or suppression by circumstances, of
instincts which betray themselves in dreams. I am inclined to think that
the educators of the future must somehow contrive to do more--indeed
they cannot well do less than is actually done--in teaching the control
of that secret undercurrent of thought in