SUGGESTIVE QUESTIONS

  1. Apply the writer's criticism to work done in school.
  2. What should be the purpose of public school education?
  3. What advantage does the writer gain by quoting from the “successful failure”?
  4. Why does the writer give only a résumé of some of the words of the “successful failure”?
  5. What is real culture?
  6. What is the difference between “passing” and “learning”?
  7. What is an “imitation parchment degree”?
  8. How long should a person pursue systematic study?
  9. What principles should guide a person in reading books?
  10. What is the difference between being “taught about Shakespeare” and being “taught Shakespeare”?
  11. What is the proper attitude toward newspaper reading?
  12. What is “intellectual window-dressing”?
  13. What should one know of history?
  14. What should one know concerning various lands?
  15. On what should real appreciation of music depend?
  16. How should education contribute to political life?
  17. What is the importance of education in the United States?
  18. What is the basis of real leadership?
  19. Make a list of the “vital matters of public affair” on which the writer believes people should be informed.
  20. On how many of these subjects are you informed?