Christianity
It is easy enough to secure buildings and classrooms for our schools. The expenditure of so many dollars will bring us the equipment we require. Books and materials may be had almost for the asking. The great problem is to secure _teachers_--real teachers, teachers of power an...
The particular mode of procedure used in recitation will depend on the nature of the material, the age of the pupils, and the aim of the lesson. For the church-school recitation...
7. Chapter 7We have seen in an earlier chapter how the subject matter of religious education must be selected in accordance with the _aims_ we would have it accomplish in the lives of our p...
6. Chapter 6We have now come to the third of the great trio of aims in religious education--_right living_. This, of course, is _the_ aim to which the gathering of religious knowledge and t...
11. Chapter 11Life is a great unbreakable unity. Thought, feeling, and action belong together, and to leave out one destroys the quality and significance of all. Religious growth and developm...
4. Chapter 4The child comes into the world devoid of all knowledge and understanding. His mind, though at the beginning a blank, is a potential seedbed in which we may plant what teachings...
12. Chapter 12One of the surest tests of the skillful teacher is his ability to adapt his instruction to the child, to the subject matter, and to the occasion--that is, to the _aim_. Teaching...
10. Chapter 10Our teaching must be made to stick. None but lasting impressions possess permanent value. The sermons, the lectures, the lessons that we remember and later dwell upon are the on...
3. Chapter 3[1] The point of view and in some degree the outlines of this and several following chapters have been adapted from the author's text "Class-Room Method and Management," by perm...
8. Chapter 8The organization of material to adapt it to the learner's mind and arrange it for the teacher's use in instruction is hardly less important than choosing the subject matter itse...
5. Chapter 5Life never stands still; especially does the life of the child never stand still. It is always advancing, changing, reconstructing. Starting with an unripe brain, and with no fu...
1. Chapter 1It is easy enough to secure buildings and classrooms for our schools. The expenditure of so many dollars will bring us the equipment we require. Books and materials may be had a...
2. Chapter 2All teaching has two objectives--the _subject_ taught and the _person_ taught. When we teach John grammar (or the Bible) we teach grammar (or the Bible), of course; but we also...
9. Chapter 9God, and how they tried to hide from him. This can be made very real to children. e. How punishment follows disobedience. f. Why we must ask for forgiveness when we have been di...