CHAPTER XX - SHOW CAUSE WHY
Parents Responsible for Competive Examinations
1. Mention some points we have gained by asking ‘Why?’
2. Why does Tom go to school?
3. Show that the same impulse carries him through school and university.
4. What is the tendency of ‘grind’?
5. Show that the tyranny of competitive examinations is supported by parents.
6. Are examinations themselves an evil?
7. Under what conditions should they be held?
8. What are the primary desires?
9. Are they virtuous or vicious?
10. What end do they serve?
11. Show that throughout the schoolboy’s life one natural desire takes the place which properly belongs to another.
12. Why does he no longer want to know?
13. How is this a loss to the boy?
14. Show that emulation is an easier spring to work than curiosity.
15. Show that an examination-ridden empire would be a calamity.