'What sort of man or woman shall I be what kind of life shall I propose and hew out ' The answer one frames to this question is his personal ideal, and will exercise a potent influence upon the development of his character and the direction of his condu.
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Our likes and dislikes exert a fateful influence upon both our own happiness and our value to others. The ancients recognized this fully, but modern education has long neglected it and is now slowly beginning to rub its eyes and awake to the significance.Edward O. Sisson
The deepest-lying and most pervasive part of character is disposition it accompanies us everywhere, and shows itself in all we do. It is the attitude of the soul toward life, the way in which we accept our situation and our daily experiences. On the inner side it gives color and tone to our own conscious life on the outer side it pervades and modifies our conduct toward others and our reactions to events. A good disposition is indispensable to good character, though of course not all of character without it one cannot hope for perfection even with it one may fail through lack of higher elements. It is a sort of foundation layer.
Edward O. Sisson
In one sense the whole process of development consists of the formation of habits for knowledge itself, and the powers of thought, as well as the higher elements in the will, all depend upon the establishment of fixed ways of reacting to given stimuli. Consequently, the general laws of habituation underlie the whole of education. But the term habit is more commonly restricted to those established reactions that act with little or no participation of consciousness, or, in other words, mechanically or automatically. Such habits as these begin to form very early, and constitute a kind of supporting framework for the higher elements of character.
Edward O. Sisson
Every man whose tastes have been allowed to develop in wrong directions, or in whom the best tastes have failed of higher perfection, loses thereby from the inner joy and outer value of his whole life. Every good taste is a source and guarantee of happy healthy hours and days, and thus of the enrichment and elevation of life. A reasonable capacity to appreciate music and art quite suffices to enrich life and exercise a wholesome influence upon character. The taste for good reading is inseparable from a taste for good thinking.
Edward O. Sisson
Self-respect is the very cement of character, without which character will not form nor stand a personal ideal is the only possible foundation for self-respect, without which self-respect degenerates into vanity or conceit, or is lost entirely, its place being taken by worthlessness and the consciousness of worthlessness and that is the end of all character. It is often said that if we do not respect ourselves no one else will respect us this is rather a dangerous way to put it let us rather say that if we are not worthy of our own respect we cannot claim the respect of others. True self-respect is a matter of being and never of mere seeming. As Paulsen says, 'It is vanity that desires first of all to be seen and admired, and then, if possible, really to be something whereas proper self esteem desires first of all to be something, and' then, if possible, to have its worth recognized.'
Edward O. Sisson
Abraham Lincoln tells somewhere that as a boy when he met an obscure or ambiguous sentence in his reading it threw him into a sort of rage. The fact is that this was simply a form of instinct for clear thinking which is found in every child and manifests.
Edward O. Sisson
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