he life of the pupil by the human ligaments that are ever at
hand. Chemistry, physics, botany, and physiology all throb with life if
only the teacher can place the fingers of the pupils on their pulses.
Given the human teacher, the human child, and the humanized teaching,
the vitalized school is inevitable.

QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES

1. What agencies have been employed with the expectation that they would
improve the school?

2. What are the reasons why some of these have not accomplished more?

3. Give instances in which the conservatism of teachers seems to have
stood in the way of utilizing the element of human interest.

4. What do you think of a teacher who asserts that no important advance
has been made in educational theory and practice since, say, 1910?

5. Make an outline of what you think a college of education should do
for the school.

6. What would you expect to gain from a course in school administration?

7. The president of at least one Ohio college personally inspects and
checks up the work of the professors from the standpoint of proper
teaching standards, and has them visit one another's classes for
friendly criticism and observation. He reports improvement in the
standard of teaching. How is his plan applicable in your school?

8. A city high school principal states that it is not his custom to
visit his teachers' classes; that he knows what is going on and that he
interferes only if something is wrong. What do you think of his
practice? How is the principle applicable in your school?

9. Do the duties of a superintendent have to do only with curriculum and
discipline, or have they to do also with teaching power?

10. What are some of the ways in which you have known superintendents
successfully to increase the teaching power of the teachers?

11. What things do we need to know about a child in order to utilize his
interests?

12. Distinguish three types of teachers.

13. What are the objections to teaching the book?

14. What are the objections to teaching the subject?

15. What are some items of school work upon which some teachers spend
time that they should devote to finding materials suited to the child's
interests?

16. Can one teacher utilize all of the interests of a child within a
nine-month term? What is the measure of how far she should be expected
to do so?

CHAPTER XXI

BEHAVIOR

=Behavior in retrospect.=--The caption of this chapter implies the
behavio