In the eleventh talk James discusses how interest and attention are connected to one another. He also talks about passive attention or spontaneous attention and voluntary attention or deliberate attention.
In this talk the passage that stood out to me was, “But, when all is said and done, the fact remains that some teachers have a naturally inspiring presence and can make their exercises interesting, while others simply cannot. And psychology and general pedagogy here confess their failure, and hand things over to the deeper springs of human personality to conduct the task.” (p. 52) You can see this in the classroom for sure but you can see it everywhere. It happens in church, when someone is giving a speech, when someone is telling a story, etc. I still believe like I said before that people can be taught (not all) how to get the audiences attention.
Like I had mentioned earlier my brother had ADHD which was part of the reason he had so much trouble in school. What took the normal student a week to learn it took him only a day so a lot of the time he was bored. How can teachers keep the attention of the students that understand it but are bored because they don’t need to go over the material as much as the others?
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