Showing posts with label Memory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memory. Show all posts

Monday, November 15, 2010

Cultivation of Memory for Disables

Many children seem to be under the impression that memories are bestowed by nature in a fixed degree or possibilities and that little more can be done for them – in short, that memories are born, not made. But the fallacy of any such idea is demonstrated by the investigations and experiments of all the leading authorities as well as by the results obtained by persons who have developed and cultivated their own memories by individual effort without the assistance of an instructor. But all such improvement, to be real, must be alone certain natural lines and in accordance with the well-established laws of psychology instead of along artificial lines and in defiance of psychology principles. Cultivation of the memory is a far different thing from “trick memory” or feats of mental legerdemain.