What kinds of arts are there other than the fine arts?
How do the motives of the artisan differ from those of the
artist?
What are some of the characteristics that gain one the
distinction of being an “artist” teacher?
Show that to enjoy respect is more worth while than to attract
admiration.
Under what conditions can one have joy in his work? Can one do
his best without it?
What is the result on one’s work of
brooding over troubles?
Henry Ford employs trained sociologists who see that the home
relations of his employees are satisfactory. Why?
Is one who reads good literature to acquire culture as yet an
“artist” teacher?
What constitutes character?
What is the inference concerning one’s culture if his
clothes and body are not clean? If his property at the school is
not in order?
How can one add to his culture? Is what one knows or what one
does the more important part of it? Has a high degree of culture
been attained by a person who must ever be on his guard?
Is feeling an important element of culture? Illustrate.
What is the teacher’s chief reward?
Can a teacher lead pupils to regard work as a privilege rather
than as a task, unless she has that attitude herself?
In what respects do you regard teaching as a privilege? In what
respects is it drudgery to you?
Can enthusiasm result if there is a lack of joy in one’s
work? If there is a deficiency of physical strength? If there is a
poor knowledge of the subject?
What causes historical facts to seem commonplace?
What elements should be emphasized in history to make it seem
alive with meaning?
What principle of the drama comes into play in teaching, when a
teacher desires to invest the subject with life?
What advantages are there in having variety in one’s
plans?
Why should one avoid the sensational in school work? What are
the characteristics of sensationalism? Is the fact that a class
is unusually aroused a reason for decrying a method as
sensational?
With what spirit should a teacher prepare to teach about the
thirteen colonies?
Why should a teacher have great joy in the teaching of
science?
Is interest in a subject as an abstract science likely to be an
adequate interest? If so, is it the best sort of interest?
Why?
From what should interest start, and in what should it
function?
Summarize the ways in which the artist teacher will show
herself the artist.