...e ways in which the natural or instinctive responses of horses oc- cur. By operating steadily to call out certain acts, habits are formed which functi... ... it, control has in this view a flavor of coercion or compulsion about it. Systems of government and theo- ries of the state have been built upon this... ... future, rewards for their present sacrifices. Everybody knows how largely systems of pun- ishment have had to be resorted to by educational sys- tems... ...lly unintellectually, snatched away. But the withdrawal alters the stimuli operating, and tends to make them more consonant with the needs of the orga... ...ormation here has a technical meaning dependent upon the idea of something operating from without. Herbart is the best historical representative of th... ... way of glorifying the possibilities of edu- cation. If the mind was a wax tablet to be written upon by objects, there were no limits to the possibili... ...nsations. Locke had held that the mind is a blank piece of paper, or a wax tablet with nothing engraved on it at birth (a tabula rasa) so far as any c... ...r counterparts in formulations which have been made in classic philosophic systems; and that they involve the chief problems of philosophy—such as min...