Questions and Exercises

  1. What may the school do to give helpful direction and needed modifications to the instinct of acquisition?
  2. The ultimate ends of education are more efficient production and more intelligent consumption. How and by what means may the school bring about a more intelligent choice of tangible and intangible things?
  3. What hint may the teacher of geography receive from the brief description of London’s points of interest?
  4. Compare a vitalized school with the panorama of London.
  5. To what extent must individual differences be recognized by the teacher in the recitation? in discipline?
  6. Suggest means whereby pupils may be induced to spend their evenings with Dickens, Eliot, Macaulay, or Irving in preference to the “movies.”

CHAPTER VII