. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... ofour Sunday schools. Untrained leadership is apt to be inefficient and dangerous,intentions cannot justify bad practise. Good We must retain our army of consecrated volun-teer teachers and officers but we must providefor them two essential things: 1. Training—A system of training that willreach and actually help the average voluntaryworker is absolutely basic in any program forthe improvement of religious education through-out the rank and file of the churches. 2. Supervision—Train
. World survey by the Interchurch World Movement of North America : revised preliminary statement and budget ... ofour Sunday schools. Untrained leadership is apt to be inefficient and dangerous,intentions cannot justify bad practise. Good We must retain our army of consecrated volun-teer teachers and officers but we must providefor them two essential things: 1. Training—A system of training that willreach and actually help the average voluntaryworker is absolutely basic in any program forthe improvement of religious education through-out the rank and file of the churches. 2. Supervision—Trained teachers need care-ful supervision. Untrained teachers must bemuch more carefully supervised. It is a soundprinciple that the less training the worker has,the more direction he needs. Here is the weakest spot in the educationalprogram of the church. The church has notprovided trained supervisors for its army ofuntrained, volunteer workers. INFORMATION CONCERNING ADULT LEADERS OFBOY SCOUTS, CAMP FIRE GIRLS AND GIRL SCOUTS (From a recent survey of a typical small city) ^.pTOCHOA?^ •\^ O^ OF AOUtr ^^. 218 The Nations Light: RELIGIOUS EDUCATION The public school has one supervisor to every82 teachers; the church school has one super-visor to every 2,716 teachers. The program of the future should provide forhighly trained directors of religious educationin the local church and city, district, state andnational superintendents and inspectors whowill supervise, direct and train the army of vol-unteer workers. The budget of the churchmust make ample provision for expert super-vision. Extension in religious education can be madeno faster than capable leadership can be lack of prophetic vision on the part of de-nominational colleges and theological semin-aries has brought to us this crisis in the life ofthe church almost without leadership, and with-out standards, formulae and accredited prin-ciples of procedure. Now that the demandhas come for trained leadership the
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