Saturday, July 29, 2006

CM on the Brain?

This week I was making a green smoothie in the blender - I wanted it to be blended really well, so I let it run for a couple of minutes. And as I was letting it run, I was watching the mixture going around and around through the side of the container . . . I could see little dark specks kind of collecting together on the side in a few places, it must have been apple peel, and I started thinking of like attracting like, coagulating together like . . . apperception masses?

I think maybe I've been reading too much of Charlotte Mason's criticism of Herbart and his "apperception mass" theory.