ELEMENTARY QUESTIONS
1. Did you ever see a judge? Would you be afraid of a judge? Why?
2. What are the duties of a judge?
3. Why did the judge say, “But I have often been glad since, that I obeyed my teacher, my parents, and the law, and continued my studies in school”? Why do boys and girls go to school? Why is the public willing to pay large sums of money to pay teachers, buy books, build school buildings, and keep them open?
4. What law was it that the judge said he was glad that he had obeyed?
5. Why did the judge send hundreds to prison? Why was he compelled to sentence some to death?
6. What are the advantages of staying in school? What more do you know when you graduate from elementary school than those who quit earlier? Should one try to graduate from high school? Why?
7. The judge says that one of the chief purposes of school is to make good, law-abiding citizens. Think of some person you know who is a “good, law-abiding citizen”; think of some one who is not; name five ways in which they are different.
8. Have you read the Constitution of the United States? Should a good, law-abiding citizen know what is in the Constitution of the United States?
9. The judge says that we owe a duty to our country. List five duties that a school pupil owes to his father and mother, five that he owes to his teacher, and, if you can, list five duties that all of us owe to our country.