1. How would you answer the question, "What is a school?"
2. Which have been the most important learnings in your life--those from your nonschool education or from your schooling?
3. What do you think has been the most important thing you have learned in school, and what has been the most important thing you have learned outside of school?
4. Which of these models corresponds most closely to your elementary and secondary school experiences? If you had to select one as the model for a school in which you would like to teach, which would it be?
5. Which of these two broad purposes, transmitting the culture or reconstructing the culture, has the most appeal to you? Why?
6. The high school years are often said to be "the best years of your life?" Do you agree with this assertion and why? If not, what could and should be done to change the high school experience?