CHAPTER XXI

SUGGESTIONS TOWARDS A CURRICULUM

_Part II.—School-Books_

1. Who must, in the end, decide upon the right school-books?

2. What are the relative places of lecture and book?

3. Show the danger of elaborate appliances.

4. Upon what principle should studies be co-ordinated?

5. What results of education should we look for in a young person leaving school?

6. Show that the worth of education by _things_ is now fully recognised.

7. What habit should we look for as a chief acquirement of school-life?

8. Give a rough classification of the subjects in which knowledge is due to children.

9. Show the importance of the Bible as a means of education.

10. What knowledge of history should boys and girls of twelve to fourteen have?

11. What mistake is commonly made in teaching this subject?

12. What knowledge of languages should they have?

13. What should we aim at in the early teaching of science?

14. What least amount of time in the open is a _sine quâ non_ of a living education?

15. What is the use of books in nature-teaching?

16. Name a few useful books.

17. What do you understand by ‘picture-talks’?

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