15. QUESTIONS FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND INVESTIGATION.
(1) “Our pet thoughts control us.” Discuss this.
(2) Select some class room experience for the purpose of showing that induction is especially directive in nature, whereas deduction is more or less corrective in nature.
(3) “There are just two kinds of people in the world, the Inductives and the Deductives.” Explain.
(4) Are the schools sending out too many Deductives? Argue the question.
(5) “It is the business of the teacher to teach himself out of the business.” Explain.
(6) Look up the discovery of the laws of the pendulum, with a view of showing that the event well illustrates the fact of the three general steps in the discoverer’s method.
(7) “With the average, only extraordinary facts become crucial; but with the genius any ordinary fact may become crucial.” Make this clear.
(8) Explain “mental urge.” Illustrate.
(9) Illustrate “empirical proof,” also “rational proof.”
(10) Show by illustration that the inductive method as used in the class room, falls far short of being the method of the discoverer.
(11) Indicate by citing historical examples, that conquest rather than knowledge makes for manhood.
(12) Show how you would motivate a topic in geography.
(13) Outline a plan for teaching some topic in nature according to the discoverer’s method.
(14) Select a topic in arithmetic, for the purpose of giving a comparative illustration of the “question and answer mode” of presentation, and the “mode by suggestion.”