QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS
1. State the main points in Mulcaster's scheme (226) for education.
2. Characterize Locke's criticism (227) on the teaching of Latin.
3. State Locke's ideas as to the use of the Bible (228).
4. Characterize the nature and contents of the so-called "Spellers" by Coote and Dilworth (229).
5. Compare the Connecticut common school, as described by Webster (230), with an English charity-school (238 b), or a Swedish popular school (232) of the time.
6. Just what state of vernacular education in Teutonic lands is indicated by the three selections (231, 232, 233)?
7. Compare the proprietary right of the teachers at Frankfort (233) with the right of control claimed over song schools by the Precentor of a mediaeval cathedral (83).
8. Do such conditions as Krüsi describes (234) exist anywhere to day?
9. Characterize the Dame School of England, as to instruction and control, from the descriptions given in the selections (235) reproduced.
10. State the relationship of teacher and minister at Newburgh (236), and indicate the nature and probable extent of his income.
11. State the purpose of the founders of Saint Anne of Soho (237), and characterize the type of school they created.
12. What does the qualification for a charity-school teacher (238 a) indicate as to the nature of the teacher's calling in such schools? Outline the instruction (238 b) in such a school.
13. What instruction did the textbooks as printed (239) provide for?
14. Show the voluntary and benevolent character of the charity-school by comparing the subscription form (240) with some voluntary subscription form used to day.
15. How did the school in Saint John's parish (241) differ from apprenticeship training?
16. What changes do you note between the mediaeval Indenture of Apprenticeship (99) and the eighteenth-century English form (242)?
17. Compare Readings 201 and 242 on apprenticeship.
18. Compare conditions described in 244 with 231-233.
19. What do the Free School Rules of 1734 (245) indicate as to duties and discipline?
20. What does the use of the lottery for school support (246) indicate as to the conception and scope of education at the time?