CHAPTER XVII

EDUCATION IS THE SCIENCE OF RELATIONS: WE ARE EDUCATED BY OUR INTIMACIES

1. What are our three educational instruments, and why are we confined to these?

2. Why may we not encroach upon the personality of children?

3. In what ways may we temper life too much for children?

4. What example of fairy-lore serving as a screen and shelter does Wordsworth give us in _The Prelude_?

5. What have you to say of the spontaneous living of children?

6. On what does fulness of living depend?

7. Distinguish between the relation of ideas to ideas and the relation of persons to the ideas proper for them.

8. Show that the object of education is not to make something of the child, but to put the child in touch with all that concerns him.

9. Describe the self-education of an infant. What does Wordsworth tell us on this point?

10. What is our part in his education?

11. What is our common error; what are its results?

12. Distinguish between business and desire.

13. What attempts were made to teach Ruskin to ride, and what does he think of those attempts?

14. What indictment does he bring against the limitations of his condition?

15. Why should those parents especially who are villa-dwellers learn much from _Præterita_?

16. Enumerate Wordsworth’s opportunities for forming dynamic relations.

17. Show that these came naturally in the course of things.

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