QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS
1. Contrast the instruction in a German Teachers' Seminary (345) or a French normal school (346) of 1838, as described by Bache, with that of an American normal school of to-day.
2. What do the beginnings of teacher training in England (347, 348) indicate as to conceptions then existing as to the educational process?
3. Show, by comparison, that the beginnings of the American normal school were German, rather than English in origin.
4. Just what educational conditions does Governor Clinton (349) indicate as existing in New York State, in 1827?
5. Contrast the instruction in the early Massachusetts normal schools (350) with that in the German (345) and French (346) of about the same time.
6. What do the three professional courses reproduced (345, 346, 350 b) indicate as to the development of pedagogical work by about 1840?
7. Compare the textbook types, given in 351, with modern textbooks in equivalent subjects.
8. Just what light on school teaching, in 1841, does the teacher's contract given (352) throw?
9. State the steps in the evolution of a graded system of schools (353, 354).
10. State the essentials of Herbart's educational ideas (355,356), and the nature of the advances made over his predecessors.
11. State the essentials of Froebel's educational ideas, as explained by the Baroness von Marenholtz-Bülow (358).
12. Explain the difference between the universities of the two nations (359).
13. Contrast elementary education in England (360) with that in the United States at the same period.
14. Would you add anything else to Spencer's requirements to prepare for complete living? What? Why?
15. How do you explain science being "written against in our theologies and frowned upon from our pulpits" (363) when it is of such importance as Spencer concludes?
16. Contrast the old and the new psychology (357, 364).
17. Have the difficulties experienced in the transformation of instruction in China (365) been essentially different than with us? How?
18. Apply Dewey's idea as to the socialization of history (366) to instruction in geography.