| Page | |
| Training the Memory | [7] |
| The Strongest Sense Is Sight | [10] |
| Visual Impressions Most Accurate | [12] |
| Nature's Special Memory Endowment | [12] |
| A Memory Picture | [12] |
| The Visual Impression Strengthened | [13] |
| Exaggeration | [14] |
| Motion | [16] |
| Unusual Associations | [17] |
| Value of Improved Imagination | [18] |
| First Picture Association | [19] |
| Two Mental Operations | [23] |
| Reversing the Process | [25] |
| Sharpening the Tools | [27] |
| List for Memory Exercise | [30] |
| To Develop Definite Pictures | [31] |
| The Law of Association | [32] |
| Reminder Pictures | [34] |
| Forming a Health Habit | [35] |
| Beware of Procrastination | [39] |
| Attention and Memory | [40] |
| The Child's Code List | [41] |
| The Game of Code | [42] |
| Remembering Errands | [44] |
| Errands for Practice | [47] |
| Important Points to Be Followed | [48] |
| Value of Forgetting | [50] |
| Alphabetical Hitching Posts | [50] |
| Filing Abstract Ideas | [51] |
| Thinking by Pictures | [53] |
| Uses of Hitching Posts | [54] |
| Speaking Without Notes | [55] |
| The Mind's Eye and the Story | [56] |
| The Game of Story Telling | [57] |
| Two Results of Visualization | [57] |
| Learning Poetry and Prose | [58] |
| Exercises for Practice | [59-60] |
| To Preserve Early Memories | [61] |
| How to Remember Figures | [63] |
| The Number Code | [66] |
| Forming Number Words | [69] |
| Number Value of Code Words | [74] |
| The Game of Number Code | [76] |
| The Number Game | [78] |
| The Game of Solitaire | [78] |
| Code Words and Number Values | [80] |
| All Hitching Posts Numbered | [81] |
| Forming Larger Number Words | [82] |
| Adjective as Helps | [85] |
| Telephone Numbers | [86] |
| Remembering Addresses | [88] |
| Remembering Fractions | [88] |
| The Game of Memory Demonstration | [89] |
| Remembering People's Names | [92] |
| The Name of Pictures | [95] |
| Association Next Important Step | [96] |
| To Remember Mr. King | [97] |
| Associating Name and Face Pictures | [98] |
| Thought Channels | [111] |
| Review Is Essential | [112] |
| Methodical Review Best | [113] |
| A Review Test | [114] |
| Good Observation Necessary | [115] |
| Systematic Observation of Faces | [116] |
| The Game of Faces | [118] |
| The Name Game | [120] |
| The Game for Quick Naming | [120] |
| The Game of Introductions | [121] |
| Suggestions to Travelers | [122] |
| Remembering the Initials | [123] |
| The Price Must Be Paid | [125] |
TRAINING THE MEMORY
The memory is the most used of all the faculties, therefore it is very important that it should have special attention and training. Almost every exercise in the First Book, while developing the other faculties, used the memory in some manner. It is necessary for the success of most mental operations. Memory influences thought, and contributes to character development.
A good memory is the greatest aid to the student at any age. Lack of knowledge of how to use and improve the memory has been a great handicap in the life of most of us. It is no longer necessary for your children to be continuously dependent upon the operation of the memory, without knowing how to properly use it. From this book you will get a practical understanding of how to develop this faculty for them.
The young child has little conception of the importance of Memory. Do not use your time trying to impress the value of memory upon him, but rather in helping him to do the things which will result in the development of this faculty. By training the child's memory you can endow him with the knowledge and capacity which will be an ever increasing source of profit, and for which he will never cease to thank you.
To start your children in life with a trained and dependable memory is a greater endowment than a perfunctory education or even a fortune.
This is not only your privilege but your duty. The decision to do so must be yours. At first the principal effort and persistence must come from you. Follow carefully the instructions of this book and you will have no difficulty in accomplishing this desirable result.