Animals have a smaller liberty, restricted in proportion as their aptitudes are more limited; but when life begins liberty begins.
One will then call instinct, the series of useful aptitudes; intelligence, the series of aptitudes de luxe: but what is useful, what useless?
That is to say you have all sorts of aptitudesdeveloped without external change, which in an earlier biological state would possibly have found carnal expression.
One finds in him most of the aptitudes which are distributed one by one among beasts.
Concrete application of the child's energies, aptitudes and ideals must from the first run side by side with the teaching of principle.
Into that world the self takes, or should take, its special needs, aptitudes and longings, and matches them against its apprehension of Eternal Truth.
The special aptitudes are factors in intelligent behavior--as we may judge from the content of the intelligence tests--only, the tests are so contrived as not to depend too much on any one or any few of the special aptitudes.
Special Aptitudes We distinguish between the general factors in intelligence, just mentioned, and special aptitudes for dealing with colors, forms, numbers, weights etc.
These special aptitudes thus have a fairly definite cortical localization, and possibly others have also.
Finally, we must count among the native traits of the individual his inherited aptitudes for certain kinds of work.
Heredity of Intelligence and of Special Aptitudes Let us now return to the question raised at the very outset of the chapter, whether or not intelligence is a native trait.
If aptitudes for the acquisition of knowledge can be bred into a family as the qualities the sportsman wants in his dog are developed in pointers and setters, we know what we may expect of a descendant of one of the Academic Races.
That the organ of the mind brings with it inherited aptitudes is a simple matter of observation.
The capacity of the sublime is one of the noblest aptitudes of man.
There was no other way to develop the manifold aptitudes of man than to bring them in opposition with one another.
Undoubtedly there are natural aptitudes for it, as there are for farming, seamanship, or being a good husband.
Only when we have trained ourselves to such aptitudes that within a certain field our observations and reasonings are instinctive do we become swift, sure, and unfatigued in research.
Special aptitudes would be assessed highly by those who possessed them, as the artistic faculties by artists, fearlessness of enquiry and veracity by scientists, religious absorption by mystics, and so on.
That our thoughts and feelings are thus at home with such things, and take pleasure in them,--is not this because of some innate aptitudes and affinities of our nature for a supernatural and celestial life?
For the very poor this choice hardly exists, or exists only within very narrow limits, and from want of culture or want of leisure some of their most marked natural aptitudes are never called into exercise.
Time and Opportunity are wanting to most men for any considerable intellectual study, and even were it otherwise every man will find large tracts of knowledge and thought wholly external to his tastes, aptitudes and comprehension.
Rascallery--this word recalls the old revolutionary committees, most of which formed the scum of society and which showed so many aptitudes for the double function of robber and persecutor.
For the daily task imposed upon them, and which must be done by them, is robbery and murder; excepting the pure fanatics, who are few in number, only brutes and blackguards have the aptitudes and tastes for such business.
And now, more than ever, when they are still further to be pitted against men in the industrial struggle, woman-instincts and aptitudes will become ever more warped and enfeebled in them.
Notwithstanding that it is wholly impossible for them to fulfil the functions of both, because it is impossible for them to possess either the aptitudes or the energies for both.
And it neither recognises nor admits in her natural aptitudes differing from those of men, and fitting her, accordingly, for different functions in these.
Precisely as in the social economy the complementary and supplementary roles of men and women counterpoise the aptitudes and determine the effectiveness of human life and action.
Were there other functions and aptitudes the exercise whereof would better stimulate and foster human progress, it is inconceivable that children would be, and would be for so long, the helpless, feckless, dependent mortals that they are.
We shall extract from our observations only what concerns the aptitudes of the abnormal, and shall even limit ourselves to a single category of these.
How, then, could one make children follow it whose aptitudes are limited?
The first duty of the teacher is to take account of the faculties already developed, the aptitudes which are already apparent.
In order to discover the aptitudes of the mentally defective, we have three means of interrogating our questionnaires.
We have mentioned that there is a third method of weighing the aptitudes of defective children.
We shall inquire what are the best marked aptitudes and the most apparent deficiencies of this little group.
Having briefly sketched the moral aptitudesof the abnormal, let us now examine their mental aptitudes.
The study of individual aptitudes ought to have been undertaken long ago in the interest of education.
Such considerations lead us to put the following question--What are the most common aptitudes in children of this class?
Such repetition acting upon natural aptitudes or propensities gradually fixes them in one or other of two opposite directions, giving them a bias towards good or evil.
These powers arise from the due development of certain natural aptitudes which belong (in various degrees) to human nature as such and therefore to all normal human beings.
And the other aptitudes you recorded on his ability you thought to do college work--those are not inconsistent with the classification you gave when you considered the whole problem that was facing you at the immediate time.
What about his aptitudeswith respect to the work for which he was being trained?
Now, the aptitudes that he has proficiency in or propensity in has been indicated in the test results.
But direction seems to have been largely in the hands of the Free State farmers of the locality, whose aptitudes and leading carried them little above the level of irregular partisan troops.
His inherent racial aptitudes had been stimulated by his past.
Is it not likely that his ancestralaptitudes have atrophied or decayed?
You know my localaptitudes at such a time; I have been a thorough rendezvous for all consultations.
Knowledge of personal aptitudes and capacities, interests, and satisfactions, was more or less taken for granted in each case, or at least left to develop in its own way.
They take the rational, selective form of fitting the individual to the place for which his natural aptitudes best adapt him, so far as these facts of adaptability are discoverable, and so far as the environment is plastic or optional.
From such evidence, however, we glean in reality no information whatever about the vocational aptitudes of women.
With this the discussion of vocational problems ends, so far as girls are concerned, and the remaining space is given over to more adequate consideration of the vocational aptitudes and guidance of boys.
We may thus in some cases correct defects and develop aptitudes which we might otherwise neglect.
He writes: "A group in the scientific management field affirmed that an examination of physical characteristics such as the shape of the fingers and shape of the head, disclosed aptitudes and abilities.
The diagnosis of the instinctive and attitudinal characteristics and the recognition of the more specialized aptitudes constitute two points at which the line of advance is relatively slow.
Not that if these aptitudes and qualities when manifested, should point in an evil direction, they should therefore be indulged.
If we had that alone, it would be a revelation of the power of Ossian, and of the aptitudes of a people who could enjoy it.
He was born in 1722, at Truro, and educated at Oxford: he studied law, but his peculiar aptitudes soon led him to the stage, where he became famous as a comic actor.
They also squander virtues and reputation and aptitudes and opportunities.
He will provide a place or an hour when those aptitudes shall be given opportunity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aptitudes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
