9. Why can a boy write a better composition about making a kite than on “Honesty is the best policy”?
10. What is the objection to providing children with model compositions and asking them to write on closely related themes?
11. Give examples of a proper appeal to the instinct of emulation.
12. How do you account for the fact that in some classes children seldom ask questions?
13. What value is there in a collection of birds’ nests, flowers, minerals, woods, and the like, which one finds in some schoolrooms?
14. How would you hope to develop the social instinct in the pupils you teach?
15. Give the children in your class ten problems in addition, score one for each column added correctly, and compare the results. Can a teacher create ability?
16. In a city school system forty per cent of the children have been retarded one or more years during their school life. Do you think that differences in ability justify the repeating of work one or more years by so large a percentage of the children?
17. Should we try to have children develop equal ability in all of their studies, or rather encourage them to do especially well in one or two subjects?