QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS
1. From the selection from Rashdall (154), what do you infer as to the effect of the Reformation on the schools? What kind of schools does Rashdall describe as existing?
2. Contrast the vernacular style of the Bible (155) with the Ciceronian.
3. Characterize the three extracts (156-58) from Luther.
4. How advanced was the ground taken by Luther (158)? Would we accept the logic of his argument to-day?
5. Just what do the Hamburg (159) and Brieg (160) Ordnungen indicate?
6. Compare Melanchthon's Saxony Plan (161) with Sturm's (137) and the French Collège de Guyenne (136), and grade the three in order of importance.
7. Show the close similarity of the Würtemberg plan of 1559-65 (162) and a modern German state school system.
8. How advanced for the time was the work of Duke Ernest of Gotha (163)?
9. What kind of a school attitude is indicated by the close supervision of English teachers, as described in 164 and 165?
10. What would be the natural effect on the teaching occupation of such legislation as the Act of Uniformity (166)?
11. Compare the form of license of an elementary teacher (168) with a modern form. What have we added and omitted?
12. What do the statutes regarding prayers (169) indicate as to the nature of the grammar schools of the time?
13. Characterize the educational importance of the translations of the Bible into the native tongues (170).
14. What are the marked features of the refounding act (172) for Canterbury cathedral school? What improvements are indicated?
15. State the steps in the development (173) of the English Poor-Law of 1601, just what the law provided for (174), and just what elements necessary to the creation of a state school system were incorporated into it.