W. C. Bagley, The Educative Process, Chapter III.
Exercises.
1. How would you hope to contribute to the realization of the aim of education in the teaching of English, arithmetic, cooking, geography, or other school subjects?
2. How would you determine whether or not the children in your grade are socially efficient?
3. What are the most important subjects, or parts of subjects, which you teach? Why?
4. How would an application of the aim of education as discussed in this chapter modify the work commonly done in arithmetic? In nature study?
5. It has been claimed that education should provide for the harmonious development of all of the powers. Criticize this statement of aim.
6. Could you defend the statement that “the aim of education is to produce socially efficient men and women,” and at the same time deny that the greatest individual good comes from working for the general welfare?
7. Why should education be free in a democracy?