FACULTY OF EDUCATION.

HISTORY OF EDUCATION.

Candidates will answer any five questions.

1. Describe the method and show the importance of Socrates as a teacher.

2. What social and political conditions in Athens account for the rise of the Sophists? Describe their teaching in its substance and method.

3 Describe, in as much detail as you can, the Monitorial schools organized by Joseph Lancaster. Account for their great popularity and for their subsequent decline.

4. Sketch in outline the development of state aid to and state control of education in England.

5. Describe the educational aims of Pestalozzi and the principles underlying his methods.

6. What new principles of education and reforms in method were characteristic of the Philanthropinum established by Basedow?

7. "According to Herbart the primary function of the teacher is to impart knowledge." "According to Herbart, the main end of education is character.' How are these statements reconciled? Explain critically.

8. Describe the organization, curricula and methods of instruction in the schools of the Jesuit order. What factors determined the nature of the curriculum in these schools?

FACULTY OF EDUCATION.

PRINCIPLES OF EDUCATION.

Answer the first three and any two of the remaining five questions.

1. (a) What general causes have contributed to the growth of state intervention in Education during the nineteenth century?

(b) What is the place in Education of voluntary effort such as we find illustrated in private schools?

2. (a) Outline some practicable means for the co-operation of the home and the school in elementary education.

(b) Give your own opinion as to the place of homestudy in the education of the ordinary public school child and as to the sort of home work most suitable.

3. (a) What general arguments may be used in support of the doctrine of the correlation of studies?

(b) Illustrate from Geography, Arithmetic, and Constructive Work the possibilities of the correlation of studies in the Public School.

4. Discuss after Spencer and also according to your own views, the value of teaching the facts of Physiology to children.

5. Discuss whether or not the 'order in time' which Spencer established for the five characteristic human activities, is also an order in importance.

6. "The education of the child must accord both in mode and arrangement with the education of mankind as considered historically." Discuss.

7. Give the substance of Professor Dewey's criticism of the definition of the end of education as the "harmonious development of all the powers of the individual." What value has this definition in your opinion? Compare it with certain more recent definitions.