STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student B.)
(1) | What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘school’? |
(2) | What is your first memory of school? |
(3) | Were you happy with your school? |
(4) | Why do you think it is that many children don’t like school? |
(5) | What’s the most important thing you learnt at school? |
(6) | Do you think your school days are the best days of your life? |
(7) | What are your best and worst memories of school? |
(8) | If you went to school again, what would you do differently? |
(9) | Did you like your school uniform? |
(10) | Educator Robert Duke said: "Children are naturally expressive but they go to school and get it taught out of them." Do you agree? |
STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to Student A.)
(1) | What’s the most important thing a school should teach children? |
(2) | Is school too dangerous these days? |
(3) | What advice would you give to your children about school? |
(4) | Do you think school is too much like a production line in a factory? |
(5) | Do you like looking at your old school photos? |
(6) | What’s your image of school in other countries? |
(7) | What kind of discipline do you think there should be in schools? |
(8) | What school clubs did you belong to? |
(9) | Albert Einstein said: "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school?" What did he mean by this? |
(10) | Agatha Christie said: "Nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them [so] they seem...unable to produce their own ideas." Do you agree with her? |