of interests as you can well take care of? Have you so many interests that you are
slighting the development of some of the more important ones?
- Observe several recitations for differences in the amount of interest shown.
Account for these differences. Have you ever observed an enthusiastic teacher
with an uninterested class? A dull, listless teacher with an interested class? - A father offers his son a dollar for every grade on his term report which is
above ninety; what type of interest relative to studies does this appeal to? What
do you think of the advisability of giving prizes in connection with school work? - Most children in the elementary school are not interested in technical
grammar; why not? Histories made up chiefly of dates and lists of kings or
presidents are not interesting; what is the remedy? Would you call any teaching
of literature, history, geography, or science successful which fails to develop an
interest in the subject? - After careful observation, make a statement of the differences in the typical
play interests of boys and girls; of children of the third grade and the eighth
grade.