The teaching problem; a message to Sunday school workers . room,away from, the walls. This is as un-Centrally Located fortunate as it is unavoidable in manyplaces, as a teacher who handles aclass well in such a situation, without annoy-ing other classes, and in turn being- interruptedby them, finds the difiQculties of the lesson hourmultiplied. Classes should always be locatedas far from each other as possible, and espe-cially when in the body of the room. Curtainsare sometimes used to secure isolation, but un-less the classes are placed in corners,Objections to angles and recesses, curtains c
The teaching problem; a message to Sunday school workers . room,away from, the walls. This is as un-Centrally Located fortunate as it is unavoidable in manyplaces, as a teacher who handles aclass well in such a situation, without annoy-ing other classes, and in turn being- interruptedby them, finds the difiQculties of the lesson hourmultiplied. Classes should always be locatedas far from each other as possible, and espe-cially when in the body of the room. Curtainsare sometimes used to secure isolation, but un-less the classes are placed in corners,Objections to angles and recesses, curtains can Curtains ° , ^ _. rarely be used to advantage. Evenunder the best conditions they are hardly satis-factory as a general school resource, though anoccasional class may use them. In cold weatherthey shut off the heat, in hot weather they shutoff the needed circulation of air, and at alltimes they interfere with the light. The cultivation of a moderate tone of voice,both in teaching- and in recitation, is helpful80 The Great Voice The Loud-VoicedBrother. under these conditions. If the loud-voicedbrother who is heard every Sunday hig-h abovethe buzz of the classes could hear himself asothers hear him he would certainly lose no timein cultivating- the vocal excellence ofShakespeares Cordelia. If there is acorner for him where he can face anopen window his class should be removed tothat location forthwith. In any event heshould not be so placed that he is necessarilytalking- at and disturbing- a hundred people, in-stead of splitting- the ears of only his own pu-pils. I just now recall one of the finest teach-ers I ever knew, whose voice was of that keenlypenetrating- variety that when at work he wasvirtually teaching- the entire Sunday school,and it was only by the most fortuitous locationof his class that the annoyance could be over-come in any degree. The orator-teacher, who usually has abible class, should be quartered withview to minimizing- the reach of hforensic eloquence.
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