She yearns to have them join with her in
looking down through the years when the activities of the school will be
functioning in worthy behavior.
QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
1. Discuss the relative importance of environment as a factor in the
behavior of plants; animals; children; men.
2. How may an understanding of the mutual reaction of the child and his
environment assist the teacher in planning for character building in
pupils?
3. Make specific suggestions by which children may influence their
environment.
4. Discuss the vitalized teacher's contribution to the environment of
the child.
5. After reading this chapter give your definition of "behavior."
6. Discuss the author's idea of leadership.
7. Define education in terms of behavior, environment, and heredity.
8. Account for the difference in behavior of some of the characters
mentioned in the chapter.
9. How may the vitalized teacher be distinguished from the traditional
teacher in her attitude toward facts?
10. Discuss the doctrine of educational predestination.
CHAPTER XXII
BOND AND FREE
=Spiritual freedom.=--There is no slavery more abject than the bondage
of ignorance. John Bunyan was not greatly inconvenienced by being
incarcerated in jail. His spirit could not be imprisoned, but the
imprisonment of his body gave his mind and spirit freedom and
opportunity to do work that, otherwise, might not have been done.
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