12. Contrast the Greek method of instruction in music, and the purposes of the instruction, with our own. 13. How could we incorporate into our school instruction some of the important aspects of Greek instruction in music? 14. What do you think of the contentions of Aristotle and Plato that the State should control school music as a means of securing sound moral instruction? 15. Does the Greek idea that a harmonious personal development contributes to moral worth appeal to you? Why? 16. Contrast the Greek ideal as to athletic training with the conception of athletics held by an average American schoolboy. 17. Contrast the education of a Greek boy at sixteen with that of an American boy at the same age. 18. Contrast the emphasis placed on expression as a method in teaching in the schools of Athens and of the United States. 19. Do the needs of modern society and industrial life warrant the greater emphasis we place on learning from books, as opposed to the learning by doing of the Greeks? 20. Compare the compulsory-school period of the Greeks with our own. If we were to add some form of compulsory military training, for all youths between eighteen and twenty, and as a preparedness measure, would we approach still more nearly the Greek requirements? 21. Explain how the Athenian Greeks reconciled the idea of social service to the State with the idea of individual liberty, through a form of education which developed personality. Compare this with our American ideal. 22. The Greek schoolboy had no long summer vacation, as do American children. Is there any special reason why we need it more than did they? 23. Do we believe that virtue can be taught in the way the Hellenic peoples did? Do we carry such a belief into practice? SELECTED READINGS In the accompanying _Book of Readings_ the following selections are reproduced: 1. Plutarch: Ancient Education in Sparta. 2. Plato: An Athenian Schoolboy's Life. 3. Lucian: An Athenian Schoolboy's Day. 4. Aristotle: Athenian Citizenship and the Ephebic Years. 5. Freeman: Sparta and Athens compared. 6. Thucydides: Athenian Education summarized. QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS 1. Describe and characterize the Laws which Lycurgus framed for Spartan training (1). 2. Describe and characterize the instruction of the Ireus at Sparta. Compare with the training given among the best of the American Indian tribes (1). 3. Contrast the type of education given an Athenian and a Spartan boy, as to nature and purpose and character (1 and 2). 4. What degree of State supervision of education is indicated by Plato (2)? By Freeman (5)? 5. Compare an Athenian school day as described by Lucian (3) with a school day in a modern Gary-type school. 6. Compare the Ephebic years of an Athenian youth (4) with those of a Spartan youth (1). 7. What were some of the chief defects of Athenian schools (5)? 8. What was the position of the State in the matter of the education of youth (5)?