CHAPTER VI

SOME EDUCATIONAL THEORIES EXAMINED

1. What do we owe to the Schools of Pestalozzi and Froebel?

2. What is the source of weakness in their conceptions?

3. Compare ‘make children happy and they will be good’ with ‘be good and you will be happy.’

4. Show the fundamental error of regarding man merely as part of the _Cosmos_.

5. Show that the struggle for existence is a part of life even to a child.

6. That any sort of transition violates the principles of unity and continuity.

7. Why is the Herbartian theory tempting?

8. Show that this theory treats the person as an effect and not a cause.

9. Show that the functions of education are overrated by it.

10. Show that this system of psychology is not in harmony with current thought in three particulars.

11. Show that educational truth is a common possession.

12. What are the characteristics of a child who is being adequately educated?

13. What, roughly speaking, is expressed in the word _person_?

14. Show how a person is like Wordsworth’s ‘cloud.’

15. Describe an adequate doctrine of education.

16. Show how it is in touch with the three great ideas which are now moving in men’s minds.

17. What would you say of personal influence in education?

18. What is implied in saying, _Education is the science of relations_?

19. Why must teaching not be obtrusive?

20. What attitude on the teacher’s part arises from the recognition of a child as a person?

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