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6. While therefore we would defend in its entire extent the general doctrine which Pestalozzi inaugurated, we think great evil likely to result from an uncritical reception of his specific devices.”

Explain and illustrate this statement.

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SCHOOL MANAGEMENT AND SCHOOL LAW,
SECOND CLASS.

1. You visit a rural school and find it as near perfection as one · can hope to reach. Describe it with a view to showing that you fully understand what is meant by proper school organization and manage

ment.

2. From what sources are school revenues in rural districts derived? What amount comes from each source?

3. What power has the teacher as regards:

(a) Behavior of pupils going to and coming from school.

(b) Corporal punishment.

4. A new rural school is being built; make suggestions on the following points:

(a) Ventilation and lighting.

(b) Blackboards and decorations.

5. State briefly your views in regard to the following:

(a) Giving homework.

(b) Seatwork.

(c) Incentives to study.

PSYCHOLOGY-FIRST AND SECOND CLASS.

1. (a) Outline how Precepts are reached.

(b) Indicate the different steps in the formation of a Concept. (c) Show the relation between judging and reasoning.

2. Discuss the conditions of Mental Reproduction under the following heads:

(a) Depth of Impression.

(b) Association of Impressions.

3. In what way will a study of Psychology influence the teacher in determining what subjects to teach and the time and order in which they should be taken? Illustrate by examples.

4. Indicate the place the proper training of the senses should occupy in the work of the school.

5. Distinguish between Inductive and Deductive Reasoning, giving illustrations of each.

6. What are the requisites of a good definition?

PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION-FIRST AND
SECOND CLASS.

1. What are the characteristics of a good textbook,

(a) If required for pupils' use at home?

(b) If required for pupils' use under the direction of the teacher?

2. (a) "Memorizing especially is an excellent preparatory school for the thinking faculty."-Rosenkranz.

Explain this statement.

(b) "Emile shall never learn anything by heart, not even fables." Discuss this statement.

(c) What place in schoolwork would you give to pure memorizing?

3. Distinguish between the Acroamatic and Erotematic method in teaching. To what extent and under what circumstances can each be used to advantage in Public School work?

4. "Work should never be treated as play nor play as if it were work."-Rosenkranz.

What reasons can be assigned for this maxim? What is its bearing on Kindergarten work? Give your own opinions on the relations. of work and play.

5. What are the principles underlying the proper use of punishment in the school?

6. "All Highest Happiness Theories,' however finely spun they may be, lead at last to sophistry and to contradictions ruinous to life." --Rosenkranz.

"The happiness or misery caused by it are the ultimate standards by which men judge of behavior."-Spencer.

Contrast these views and show how the acceptance of either would influence a teacher in his school room procedure.

7. "Rules are gathered from practice. They are the result of induction to which we come by long observation and comparison of facts." --Spencer.

Discuss this statement in relation to the subject of grammar and its proper place on the School Curriculum.

NOTE.-Questions 1 and 2 for Second Class Students only.

Questions 6 and 7 for First Class Students only.

SCIENCE-FIRST AND SECOND CLASS.

1. (a) Distinguish Nature Study from Elementary Science.

(b) Show where the teacher who does not make this distinction is likely to go astray.

2. (a) Outline a series of Nature-study topics suitable for the children of grades I and II, giving reasons why you think them suitable.

(b) What aims should the teacher have in view in dealing with these topics?

3. (a) Indicate carefully how you would present in the above mentioned grades the study of an insect, a plant, and a fall of snow.

(b) State clearly your reasons for wishing the child to make the acquaintance of these subjects.

4. "Nature-study lends itself more readily than almost any other study to the development of the mind of the child according to the psychological order." Explain this.

5. Show by selecting one of the topics taken in 3 (a), how you would relate Nature-study and Literature.

6. Outline for a class in grade VIII your method of dealing with the following topics:

1. All matter expands under heat.

2. The study of the dandelion.

MATHEMATICS-FIRST AND SECOND CLASS.

1. (a) Show how you would try to have the beginner understand clearly the fundamental notions of Euclid, e.g., the following: 1. a straight line; 2. an angle; 3. the "base" and the "other two sides " of a triangle.

(b) What difficulties is the pupil likely to meet with in Prop. 4, Book 1 Show how you would assist him to conquer these difficulties.

2. (a) Outline your first lesson in Algebra and give your reasons for this procedure.

(b) Discuss carefully how you would deal with: 1. The rule of exponents, and 2. The rule of signs, as a preparation to the study of algebraic multiplication.

3. (a) Indicate the use you would make of the objective in your study of primary number.

(b) Give in some detail a first lesson on the number 6.

4. Discuss two of the following topics:

1. The value of oral work in elementary Arithmetic.

2. The introduction of the symbols of number.

3. The use of endings.

5. (a) Outline a lesson in multiplication of Decimals, showing:

1. What the pupil has to start with.

2. What new element is to be learned.

3. The steps by which the new and the old are to be assimilated.

(b) Examine the following conclusions made by the Committee of Ten on the subject of Arithmetic:

1. "This subject should be abridged and enriched.”

2. "Speed and accuracy of work should be aimed at."

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY-FIRST AND
SECOND CLASS.

1. (a) To what account may a child's knowledge of his own neighborhood be turned in introducing him to History?

(b) Describe with some degree of fulness how you would present to a class in grade V the story of Leonidas.

(c) How would you ascertain whether your lesson was a success

or not ?

(d) Why should you teach this topic?

2. You are teaching the war of 1812-14 to a grade VIII class, write notes on:

(a) The kind of preparation expected from your pupils. (b) The manner of teaching.

(c) The matter of teaching.

(d) The geographical side.

3. State how you think History should be taught so as to promote intelligent, patriotic citizenship.

4. (a) Why should observation of what a child sees about him precede and accompany all other work in Geography?

(b) Outline your study of the "district hill," and show how you would lead the child out to any world feature thus typified.

5. (a) How would you ascertain when your pupils were prepared to leave Home Geography?

(b) What work should precede the study of the continent? State fully your method of teaching the continent of South America for the first time to your class.

6. (a) In what order would you proceed with the study of a country, e.g., Canada?

(b) Show how you would teach the phases of the moon to a class in grade VIII.