THE CHILDTHE CHILD OF THE FUTUREQuestions and Exercises
- How should dividends on school investments be estimated?
- What are the inherent rights of childhood?
- What use may be made of play in the education of children?
- Explain why adults are often unwilling to coöperate
through lack of opportunity to play in childhood.
- Illustrate from your own knowledge and experience how the
exercise of native tendencies may be the means of education.
- What modes of self-expression should be used by pupils of
elementary schools? of high schools?
- What may the vitalized teacher do to assist in the development of
self-expression? What should she refrain from doing?
- Suggest methods whereby the teacher may discover the content of
the child’s world.
- How may the child’s experience, imagination, and
expression be interrelated?
- Why is the twentieth century called the “age of the
child”?
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