may
offset this tendency?

13. Compare the socialized recitation with a debate.

14. Compare it with an ordinary discussion or argument.

15. Show just why the results of the socialized recitation are likely to
be permanent.

16. How does socialized class work affect the home and society?

17. Though school is a preparation for life, it, at the same time, is
life. Show that the socialized recitation presupposes this truth.

18. Compare the value of the assignment of a history lesson in the
manner described in the notes quoted with the value of an ordinary
assignment.

19. Describe at least one other socialized recitation.

20. Compare socialized work as described in Scott's Social Education (C.
A. Scott, Ginn & Co., 1908) with the socialized recitation here
described, as to (_a_) aim, (_b_) method, (_c_) results.

21. "Lessons require two kinds of industry, the private individual
industry and the social industry or class work." Is this true? If so,
what sort of recitation-lesson will stimulate each kind?

CHAPTER XVI

AGRICULTURE

=Agriculture a typical study.=--In the vitalized school the subject of
agriculture is typical and may profitably be elaborated somewhat by way
of illustrating the relation of a subject to school procedure. From
whatever angle we approach the subject of agriculture we find it
inextricably connected with human life. This fact alone gives to it the
rank of first importance. Its present prominence as a school study is
conclusive evidence that those who are charged with the responsibility
of administering the schools are becoming conscious of the need for
vitalizing them. Time was when arithmetic was regarded as the most
practical subject in the school and, therefore, it was given precedence
over all others. History, grammar, and geography were relegated to
secondary rank, and agriculture was not even thought of as a school
study. But as population increased and the problem of providing food
began to loom large in the public consciousness, the subject of
agriculture assumed an importance that rendered it worthy a place in the
school curriculum. It is a high tribute to the school that whenever any
subject takes hold of the public mind the school is thought of at once
as the best agency for promulgating that subject. The subjects of
temperance and military training aptly illustrate this statement of
fact.

=Its rapid development.=--So soon, therefore, as the subject of
agric