any
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.

15. Make a study of your own ideals. What ideals do you have? Where did
you get them? What ideals did you get from your parents? What from
books? What from teachers? What from friends?

16. Show that throughout life inherited tendencies are the fundamental
bases from which our actions proceed, on which our lives are erected.

17. Make a complete outline of the chapter.

REFERENCES FOR CLASS READING

COLVIN and BAGLEY: _Human Behavior_, Chapters III, VIII, IX, and X.

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