To insure a discussion, it may be necessary at the outset for the teacher to assign to the several pupils single points to be expanded and presented in order.

There is an advantage in the teacher’s serving as moderator.  He may, as teacher, pause to give such directions and explanations as may be helpful to young citizens.

The pupils should be held up to the more obvious requirements of parliamentary law, and shown how to use its rules to accomplish various purposes.

4.  Has the state a right to direct the education of its youth?  If the state has such a right, are there any limits to the exercise of it?  Does the right to direct the education of its youth carry with it the right to abolish private schools?

5.  Is it wise to assist private educational institutions with public funds?

6.  Ought teachers, if approved, to be appointed for one year only, or during good behaviour?

7.  What classes of officers in a town should serve during good behaviour?  What classes may be frequently changed without injury to the public?

8.  Compare the school committee in your own state (if it is not Massachusetts) with that in Massachusetts.

9.  Illustrate from personal knowledge the difference between real estate and personal property.

10.  A loans B $1000.  May A be taxed for the $1000?  Why?  May B be taxed for the $1000?  Why?  Is it right to tax both for $1000?  Suppose B with the money buys goods of C. Is it right to tax the three for $1000 each?

11.  A taxpayer worth $100,000 in personal property makes no return to the assessors.  In their ignorance the assessors tax him for $50,000 only, and the tax is paid without question.  Does the taxpayer act honourably?

12.  What difficulties beset the work of the assessors?

13.  Would anything be gained by exempting personal property from taxation?  If so, what?  Would anything be lost?  If so, what?

14.  Does any one absolutely escape taxation?

15.  Does the poll-tax payer pay, in any sense, more than his poll-tax?

16.  Are there any taxes that people pay without seeming to know it?  If so, what? (See below, chap. viii. section 8.).

17.  Have we clans to-day among ourselves? (Think of family reunions, people of the same name in a community, descendants of early settlers, etc.).  What important differences exist between these modern so-called clans and the ancient ones?

18.  What is a “clannish” spirit?  Is it a good spirit or a bad one?  Is it ever the same as patriotism?

19.  Look up the meaning of ham, wick, and stead.  Think of towns whose names contain these words; also of towns whose names contain the word tun or ton or town.

20.  Give an account of the tithing-man in early New England.

21.  In what sense is the word “parish” commonly used in the United States?  Is the parish the same as the church?  Has it any limits of territory?