SUMMARY. Instincts are inherited tendencies to specific actions. They fall under the heads: individualistic, socialistic, environmental, adaptive, sexual or mating instincts. These inherited tendencies are to a large extent the foundation on which we build education. The educational problem is to control and guide them, suppressing some, fostering others. In everything we undertake for a child we must take into account these instincts. CLASS EXERCISES 1. Make a study of the instincts of several animals, such as dogs, cats, chickens. Make a list showing the stimuli and the inherited responses. 2. Make a study of the instincts of a baby. See how many inherited responses you can observe. The simpler inherited responses are known as _reflexes_. The closing of the eyelids mentioned in the text is an example. How many such reflexes can you find in a child? 3. Make a special study of the fears of very young children. How many definite situations can you find which excite fear responses in all children? Each member of the class can make a list of his own fears. It may then be seen whether any fears are common to all members of the class and whether there are any sex differences. 4. Similarly, make a study of anger and fighting. What situations invariably arouse the fighting response? In what definite, inherited ways is anger shown? Do your studies and observations convince you that the fighting instinct and other inherited responses concerned with individual survival are among the strongest of inherited tendencies? Can the fighting instinct be eliminated from the human race? Is it desirable to eliminate it? 5. Make a study of children's collections. Take one of the grades and find what collections the children have made. What different objects are collected? 6. Outline a plan for using the collecting instinct in various school studies. 7. With the help of the principal of the school make a study of some specific cases of truancy. What does your finding show? 8. Make a study of play by watching children of various ages play. Make a list of the games that are universal for infancy, those for childhood, and those for youth. (Consult Johnson's _Plays and Games_.) 9. What are the two main functions of play in education? Why should we play after we are mature? 10. Study imitation in very young children. Do this by watching the spontaneous play of children under six. What evidences of imitation do you find? 11. Outline the things we learn by imitation. What is your opinion of the place which imitation has in our education? 12. Make a study of imitation as a factor in the lives of grown people. Consider styles, fashions, manners, customs, beliefs, prejudices, religious ideas, etc. 13. On the whole, is imitation a good thing or a bad thing? 14. Make a plan of the various ways in which dramatization can be profitably used in the schools.