Mind, Character, and Personality -- Study Guide

Lesson Five - Adolescence and Youth—Guiding Principles in Education

Reading Assignment: Pages 281-369 MCP-SG 21.1

1. In what ways will “severe training of youth” affect them? (281, 283, 284)

MCP-SG 21.2

2. How should children be educated differently than the animals? Why? (282)

MCP-SG 21.3

3. When we repeat an action, what does it do for us? (285)

MCP-SG 21.4

4. When youth beautify their school, what double benefit will result? (291)

MCP-SG 21.5

5. “It is in youth that the _____________________ are most ardent, the ___________ most retentive, and the heart most susceptible to __________ _________________.” (294) MCP-SG 21.6

6. How is an unbeliever defined? (305)

MCP-SG 21.7

7. Why do some brilliant young men fail? (309)

MCP-SG 21.8

8. Define “false science.” (310)

MCP-SG 22.1

9. If we wait until every objection is removed before we believe, what will never happen? (311)

MCP-SG 22.2

10. Contrast recreation and amusement. (313)

MCP-SG 22.3

11. Is it correct to say that a man may practice anything he conscientiously believes to be right? Explain your answer. (322)

MCP-SG 22.4

12. When truth works only on the conscience, it creates __________. When it is invited into the heart, ________________________ ___________________________________________. (324) MCP-SG 22.5

13. How is God’s working on the will or conscience different from Satan’s? (325)

MCP-SG 22.6

14. “Inward __________ and a __________________ void of offense toward God will ____________and ___________________ the intellect like _____ distilled upon the tender _________.” (328) MCP-SG 22.7

15. In what way is the mind educated to accept sin as pleasant? (336)

MCP-SG 23.1

16. One of the chief causes of “mental inefficiency is _________________________________________________________.” (343) MCP-SG 23.2

17. List some dangers of idleness. (344, 345)

MCP-SG 23.3

18. If we find our hearts opposed to the testing of God, what should it prompt us to do? (347, 348)

MCP-SG 23.4

19. The “great motive powers of the soul are ________________, _______________ and _________.” (349) MCP-SG 23.5

20. What happens to a person who does not educate his reason? (350)

MCP-SG 23.6

21. Intellectual greatness is to be “balanced by _______________ _______________.” (351) MCP-SG 23.7

22. What is “the one great lesson” that students must learn? (358)

MCP-SG 24.1

23. The power we have that is like the Creator is _______________ ___________________. (361) MCP-SG 24.2

24. The greatest “university course” possible is ________________ __________________________________________. (369) MCP-SG 24.3

Discussion Points: MCP-SG 24.4

1. Consider various dangers to youth: e.g., indulgence, doubt, amusement, dancing, conversation, music, appetite. 308-318)

MCP-SG 24.5

2. Read pages 319-328 and answer the following: MCP-SG 24.6

(a) What are the values of following the conscience?

MCP-SG 24.7

(b) How do we lose the reliability of conscience?

MCP-SG 24.8

(d) List the great variety of types of conscience. MCP-SG 24.10

3. List those things that cloud, benumb, or darken the perception, those things that help make it clear, and some natural results of good thoughts and bad thoughts. (331-340)

MCP-SG 24.11

4. Find several definitions of “true education.” (359-369)

MCP-SG 24.12

5. Consider the influence that peer groups have on a person’s mind development.

MCP-SG 24.13