CHAPTER XIX

WE ARE EDUCATED BY OUR INTIMACIES

_Part III.—Vocation_

1. Describe Turner’s ‘call’ to Ruskin.

2. What does Ruskin consider his first sincere drawing?

3. What account does he give of his true initiation?

4. What is the first hint we get of nature as a passion?

5. How does Wordsworth trace the beginnings of this passion?

6. Describe the ‘calling’ of the poet.

7. How does Wordsworth describe the education of the little prig of his day?

8. Show that the child prig is the child who is the end and aim of his own education.

9. Mention a few of the directions in which children have affinities.

10. Show from the example of _Waverley_ the danger of a desultory education.

11. How does Mr Ruskin express that ‘the child is father to the man’?

12. Show that strenuous effort and reverence are conditions of education.

13. Show that comradeship has its duties.

14. Why should children have a steady, unruffled course of work?

15. Describe from _Brother Lawrence_ one way in which the highest relationship may be initiated.

16. What does Browning say about this relation?

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