QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES

1. Distinguish the following terms: demagogue; politician; statesman;
and practical idealist.

2. Subject to what limitations should a successful teacher be a
politician?

3. Enumerate the qualities of a successful politician that teachers
should possess.

4. How does the author define education? Criticize this definition.

5. What resemblances has the process of education to the evolution of
machinery? to the evolution of biological species?

6. Describe methods by which the tactful teacher may secure helpful
substitutions in the child's life.

7. In what respects does society resemble a vitalized school?

8. Illustrate how teachers may utilize for the education of the child
seemingly harmful instincts.




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