CHAPTER IV - PARENTS AS INSPIRERS
The Life of the Mind grows upon Ideas
1. Summarise the preceding chapter.
2. Why are not the educational conceptions of the past necessarily valid now?
3. Explain and illustrate Pestalozzi’s theory.
4. And Froebel’s theory.
5. In what way is the kindergarten a vital conception?
6. But science is changing front. How does this fact affect educational thought?
7. What bearing has ‘heredity’ upon education?
8. Is education formative? Discuss the question.
9. Prove that the individual is not at the mercy of empirics. Is this a gain?
10. Why is ‘education’ an inadequate word?
11. What is the force of ‘bringing up’?
12. Give an adequate definition, and show why it is adequate.
13. Show the importance of method as a way to an end.
14. Illustrate the fact that the life of the mind grows upon ideas.
15. What is an idea?
16. Trace the rise and progress of an idea.
17. Illustrate the genesis of an idea.
18. An idea may exist as an ‘appetency.’ Give examples.
19. Show that a child draws inspiration from the casual life around him.
20. Describe and illustrate the order and progress of definite ideas.
21. What is the Platonic doctrine of ideas?
22. Show that ideas only are important in education.
23. How should the educational formula run?
24. The ‘infallible reason’––what is it?