Is there danger of adopting an ideal that,
while it is worthy as far as it goes, is merely incidental and not worth
while? (Such are an accurate memory of unimportant details, certain
finesse in manners and speech, punctiliousness in engagements,
exhaustiveness in shopping before making purchases, perfection in
penmanship and other arts at the expense of speed: suggest others.)
4. How can the contemplation of a rainbow educate? What education should
result from a view of Niagara Falls?
5. What qualities would a teacher have to possess that her influence
aside from her teaching might be of more value than the teaching itself?
6. That one may have influence is it enough for one to be good, or is it
what one does that counts? Suggest lines of action for a teacher that
would increase her influence for good.
7. Explain how a fine unconscious influence exerted by a teacher helps
to keep pupils in school.
8. In Hawthorne's story of the _Great Stone Face_ what qualities were
attained by those whom Ernest expected to grow into the likeness?
9. Why did Ernest's face come to resemble that of the great stone face?
10. In what ways is good fiction of value to teachers?
11. Cite something that you have gained from the unconscious influence
of another.
12. What attainments or qualities have you yet to acquire in order to
stand out as "distinctive and regnant" to a good many pupils?
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