Whom do you consider as "ideal models"? Which men
and women (of the past and the present) do you appreciate and admire most?
Which are your favourite books and the ones you have most
enjoyed and benefited from? Which books have caused you harm? In what say?
3.
Which poems and novels do you like most? Why?
Do you prefer pictures or statues? Which of these do you
admire most? Why?
Which public buildings, churches and monuments have
attracted your attention most?
Which do you prefer: the theater or the cinema? Which film
has impressed you most? And which film gave you the greatest pleasure? Did any films have
a bad effect on you? Which ones? In what way did they hurt you?
What importance do you attach to sport? Which games and
sports do you prefer? Do you also take part or do you prefer to be an onlooker?
What is your attitude toward money? What significance has
wealth or poverty for you? What, in your opinion, are the advantages or disadvantages of
the one and the other?
What is your attitude toward love?What do you understand by
it? What do you think of the opposite sex? What is your attitude toward marriage and
children?
What significance and value has friendship for you?
Are you an individualist or do you feel family, national,
social or human solidarity? Which of these do you feel most?
What is your attitude toward moral principles and demands?
What ideas and feelings do you connect with duty?
What events and what inner conditions make or made you
suffer most? Was you childhood happy or sad? What problems trouble you most?
What events and what inner conditions give, or have given
you, the greatest joy? What is your attitude towards joy and favourable circumstances? Do
you think you can attain joy and happiness? By what means?
What is your attitude toward life? What significance, value
and purpose has life for you? Are you inclined to be optimistic or pessimistic? Why?
What is your attitude toward religion? Do you believe in
God, in a spiritual Reality? What do you understand by it? What importance had religion in
your life?
What caused you to choose the subjects you are studying or
the work you are doing?
Do you prefer to be in the country, at the sea, or in town?
Why?
Which aspects of the inner life are prevent in you and which
do you like most(thinking, imagination, feeling, prayer, or contemplation)?
What has school given or not given you ? Do you think it
advisable to change the methods and programmes used in education? Which of them? And how?
Are you satisfied with yourself? Do you think it improve
yourself? By what means? Would you like to receive advice in this respect?
What is your attitude toward the older generation, both
generally and in regard to your family? Are the misunderstandings and conflicts? Of what
kind? How do you think they could or should be overcome?
Have you any other ideas or suggestions and observations you
would like to express regarding the problems of young people and their relationship to
adults?
What do you think of the present political and economic
conditions of the world?
How do you think it possible to arrive at a real and lasting
peace between the peoples of the world?
What men, in your opinion, are today the most representative
in the world?
Do you believe that we are at the end of an epoch and at the
beginning of a new one? What, in your opinion, are the signs of this renewal? What
characteristics(spiritual, cultural, social, practical) will the new epoch eventually
have?
Please state: The place and date of your birth; the address
where you are now living; the occupation of your parents and their place of birth.
Please mark with a star (*) those statements of your which you think express the
characteristics of young people at all times, and with a cross (+) those which you think
correspond to the mentality of the youth of today.
Adults (over 26) replaying to the questions should mark:
With a cross (+) the replies which they believe to represent the views prevailing in their
own generation ;
With a small circle (0) those replies which they believe to express their own views ;
With an interrogation mark (?) those about which they are in doubt.
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