Questions and Exercises

  1. Upon what does the vitalization of a school mainly depend? Upon what else does it depend in part?
  2. What suggestion is made in this chapter in regard to the planning of school buildings?
  3. Why should care be taken in choosing the decorations of a school?
  4. Why is it unwise for teacher or pupils to boast of the achievements of the school?
  5. Why has the question of school lunches gained so much prominence recently?
  6. How should the industrial work in a school be linked with that in the community?
  7. Why are there fewer students in the higher than in the lower grades of most schools? Make a careful analysis of the situation in this respect in your school.
  8. Why is it a calamity to a community for a boy to fail to graduate from the high school?
  9. What may be done to prevent a child going outside the school to find something congenial?
  10. What should be a student’s motive in choosing a course?
  11. How do you make your school a center for community life? How can you make it more of a center than it is?
  12. How is the spirit of jealousy among teachers injurious to our school system? What usually makes one teacher disparage the work of another?
  13. What is essential in vitalizing a school?