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1 Distinguish between a “school teacher” and a “man or woman who teaches school.”

2 Discuss the importance of the following agencies of the school in securing for children “life of a better quality and more abundant”: play; revitalized curricula; vitalized teachers; medical inspection; social centers; moral instruction.

3 Discuss both from the standpoint of present practice and ideal educational principles: “More abundant life rather than knowledge is the chief end of instruction.”

4 What changes are necessary in school curricula and in the methods of school organization, instruction, and discipline, in order that the chief purpose of our schools, “more abundant life,” may be realized?

5 Justify the apparent length of the school day to teachers and pupils, as a means of determining the quality of the work of the school.

6 Some teachers maintain that school is a preparation for life, while the author maintains that “school is life.” Is this difference in the concept of the school a vital one?

7 How may this difference of concept affect the work of the teacher? the attitude of the pupil?

8 What definition of education will best harmonize with the ideals of this chapter?