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QUESTIONS ON THE READINGS — Section 18
The History of Education Educational Practice and Progress Considered as a Phase of the Development and Spread of Western Civilization · Ellwood Patterson Cubberley
1. Characterize the many educational influences of Athens, as pictured by Wilkins (7).
2. Were the evils of the Sophist teachers, which Isocrates points out (8), natural ones? Compare with teachers of vocal training to-day.
3. What would be necessary for the proper training of one for eloquence? Could any Sophist teacher have trained anyone?
4. Would it be possible to-day for any one city to become such a center of the world's intellectual life as did Alexandria (10)? Why?
5. Could the Socratic method (9) be applied to instruction in psychology, ethics, history, and science equally well? Why? To what class of subjects is the Socratic quiz applicable?
6. How do you account for the fact that the wonderful promise of Alexandrian science was not fulfilled?
7. State our debt to the Greeks (11).