18. Should a pupil who receives only forty per cent in his arithmetic examination be compelled to repeat the grade?
19. State the argument of those who believe that disagreeable, uninteresting work is most valuable in educating children.
20. What reasons can you give for the demand that teachers secure the interest of their pupils in school work?
21. Why is it bad intellectually for a child to divide his interest between his school work and some other activity while doing school work?
22. There is always some motive present when work is accomplished in the school. If the pupil is not interested in his work, what motives will you be apt to find in operation?
23. Does the demand that children take an interest in their work mean that we will require them to do only the sort of work which is easy for them?
24. Name three situations in school work in which you would seek to use interest as a means. Three cases in which you would consider interests as ends.
25. In which situation will a boy write the better letter: when asked to write a letter as a class exercise, or when he writes to his uncle about their plans for his summer vacation?
26. The ends which we desire to attain may be relatively near or remote. Classify the following aims presented to children according to (1) the remoteness of the end to be achieved, (2) the interest which you would expect children to take in the work for which these aims are supposed to furnish some motive. Suppose the class to be a seventh-grade group of boys.