A Class Room Logic / Deductive and Inductive, with Special Application to the Science and Art of Teaching

by George Hastings McNair

(14) Show by illustration that the question and answer method is not necessarily one which encourages the spirit of discovery.

15. QUESTIONS FOR ORIGINAL THOUGHT AND INVESTIGATION.

(1) “Our pet thoughts control us.” Discuss this.

(2) Select some class room experience for the purpose of showing that induction is especially directive in nature, whereas deduction is more or less corrective in nature.

(3) “There are just two kinds of people in the world, the Inductives and the Deductives.” Explain.

(4) Are the schools sending out too many Deductives? Argue the question.

(5) “It is the business of the teacher to teach himself out of the business.” Explain.

(6) Look up the discovery of the laws of the pendulum, with a view of showing that the event well illustrates the fact of the three general steps in the discoverer’s method.

(7) “With the average, only extraordinary facts become crucial; but with the genius any ordinary fact may become crucial.” Make this clear.

(8) Explain “mental urge.” Illustrate.