School educationMason, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Maria)
Philosophy
School education
Mason, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Maria)
Education -- Curricula; Education -- Philosophy
5. What defect in education leads to _ennui_ and the desire to be amused
by shows.
6. What was the unconscious formula of the eighteenth century?
7. What was the result of this one-sided view of education?
8. Show that the idea of the development of the faculties also rests upon
a one-sided notion.
9. What is the tendency of an education grounded upon the development of
faculties?
10. Should it be our aim to produce specialists? Why not?
11. Show what manner of education results in a sound and well-balanced
mind.
12. Show that the mediæval Church understood, better than we, that
‘education is a life.’
13. Sketch the scheme of educational philosophy to be found on the walls
of the ‘Spanish Chapel’ of S. Maria Novella.
14. Show how this educational creed unifies life.
15. What does Coleridge say of the origin of great ideas of nature?
16. What does Michael Angelo write to his friend of the need for a diet
of great ideas?
17. What is the special teaching vouchsafed to men to-day?
18. What views are people apt to take with regard to this teaching?
19. What does Huxley say about ideas in science?
20. How does the teaching of Simone Memmi and Coleridge relieve us from
anxiety and make clear our perplexities?
21. How does Coleridge describe Botany, as that science existed in his
day?
22. What has evolution, the key-word of our age, done for this and other
perplexities?
23. But what has been the object of pursuit among philosophers for three
thousand years?
24. How did Heraklitos attempt to solve the problem?
25. How did Demokritos?
26. Show that some knowledge of history and philosophy should give us
pause in using the key of evolution.
27. Show that personality remains, and is not resolvable by this key.
28. Why is it necessary for parents and teachers to consider their
attitude towards this question?
29. What are the four attitudes which it is possible to take up?
30. What gains will the children derive if their teachers adopt the
last-mentioned of these?
31. What two things are incumbent upon us with regard to the great ideas
by which the world is being taught?
32. Show the danger of making too personal a matter of education.
33. If education is a world-business, show that we must have a guiding
idea about it.
34. What ideas should regulate the curriculum of a boy or girl under
fourteen?
35. Show the importance of good books and many books for the use of
children.
36. Why may we not choose or reject certain ‘subjects’ arbitrarily?
CHAPTER XV
SCHOOL-BOOKS, AND HOW THEY MAKE FOR EDUCATION
1. What ideas do we get from the incident quoted from _The Neighbours_?
2. What manner of books sustains the life of thought?
3. What have you to say of the ‘school-books’ of the publishers?
4. Why do intelligent teachers fall back upon oral lessons?
5. Mention some of the disadvantages of these.
6. What questions should we ask about a youth who has finished his
education?
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