...obtained similar results.4 Professor James emphasises the fact by quoting a German author to the effect " that we learn to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer."5 All this emphasises the value of a pause after learning. If we go on at once to work at something...

...he was too tired to work his sums accurately. This is what James meant when he quoted the saying, " We learn to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer." l The effects, however, of fatigue are not completely done with when they have, for the moment, been...

...when he was too tired to work his sums accurately. This is what James meant when he quoted the saying, "We learn to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer." 2 The effects, however, of fatigue are not completely done with when they have, for the moment, been...

...similar results.2 Professor James emphasises the same point by quoting a German author to the effect " that we learn to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer." s It is very important, therefore, not only that learning should be undertaken when we are fresh, but...

...and the progress is frequently quite marked. This experience led Professor James to cite the paradox that we learn to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer.4 One explanation of this progress during the intermission in learning is, it has been suggested,...

...their synaptic connections. It is in this sense that we are to interpret James' striking statement that we "learn to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer," though it is to be doubted whether the intervals he suggests are not too long to be effective. A fallow...

...outlines of the whole web of civilization. Professor William James' figurative saying is a truism : " We learn to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer." We learn some things of utter importance about running a business so as to meet the needs of our civilization...

...that you could do better on Thursday than you did on Tuesday, the last day you practiced. This led one author to say that we 'learn to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer.' 12 Some of you may have had the experience of discovering that you could recite smoothly and perfectly...

...after exercising our muscles or our brain in a new way, that we can do so no longer at that time ; but after a day or two of rest, when we resume the...tune ; and it has led a German author to say that we leam to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer. Dr. Carpenter writes :* " It is a matter...

...after exercising our muscles or our brain in a new way, that we can do so no longer at that time ; but after a day or two of rest, when we resume the...tune ; and it has led a German author to say that we leam to swim during the winter and to skate during the summer. Dr. Carpenter writes :* " It is a matter...