Which do you think is most important?  Why?  Discuss this question in class.  Do you all agree in regard to this point?

If any of the activities in your list are for the purpose of earning money, tell for what you expect to spend the money.  Show how the things you expect to buy with your money will help to satisfy your other five wants.

For which of these six wants do you spend the most time in providing? your father? your mother?  If there is a difference in the three answers, why is it?

Do you have difficulty in classifying any of the things you do, or that you see others do, under any of the six heads?  Make note of these things and, as your study proceeds, see if the difficulty of classification is removed.

Suppose a boy is a bully:  what wants does he satisfy by his bullying conduct?  Suppose a boy or a girl is ambitious to become a leader, either among present companions or later in social life, business, or politics:  under which head or heads would you place this ambition?

A boy wants to enlist in the army, or a girl as an army nurse:  do these wants come under any of the six heads?

Would you, after your discussion of these topics, add any other group or kind of wants to the six mentioned?  If so, what would you call it?

Every one wants happiness.  Why is it not necessary to make a special group under this head?

Make a list of things done in your home to provide for each of the six wants.

What is done in your school to provide for the want for health? for beauty? for association with others? for the religious want?  Has your school work any relation to your desire to make a living?  Is it the business of the school to provide for all these things as well as for the want for knowledge?

Make a list of a few things done in your community outside of the home and school to provide for each of the six wants.

Think of something in which your entire community is deeply interested, such as the improvement of the roads, or the building of a new high school, or a county fair, and explain what wants it provides for.

What wants do the following things provide for:  rural mail delivery; weather reports; a corn club (or a similar club); a school garden; a library; the telephone; a hospital; a parent-teacher association?

THE PURPOSE OF DEMOCRACY

We may often hear our common purposes as communities or as a nation stated in different terms than those suggested in the paragraphs above.  For example, Franklin K. Lane, the Secretary of the Interior during the war, said, “Our national purpose is to transmute days of dreary work into happier lives—­for ourselves first and for all others in their time.”  Again, President Wilson said that our purpose in entering the world war was to help “make the world safe for democracy.”  Although these two statements