(b) It furnishes an inexhaustible source of pleasure and satisfaction for leisure hours and for the consolation of old age.
Queries
1. Can you name any other "values" that should be included in the study of history?
2. Does the study of history yield equal value in each of the groups mentioned?
3. Which one of the groups of "values" seems to you most important and hence should receive greatest emphasis?
4. Can you suggest other items under each group of values?
5. Illustrate how a teacher might proceed to exercise the power of (a) imagination; (b) reasoning; (c) memory; (d) judgment; (e) comparison; (f) classification; (g) generalization.
6. From your observations do the teachers consciously strive to realize these values in the class?
7. Do the teachers seek to get back of the records of events and to discover the motives, ideas, and ideals that produced those events? What is the method used to do so?
8. Do the teachers assume "hard, dogmatic, and uncompromising" attitudes toward the interpretation of the facts, or do they give students opportunity to use their own judgment?