The teaching problem; a message to Sunday school workers . uency ; butit is incomparably better to make this manly127 The Teaching Problem confession occasionally than to either misleadthe pupil or to be humiliated by the discoveryby keen young- eyes that you have been g-uiltyof a shallow pretense. This latter alternativeis practically the destruction of a teachers in-fluence and usefulness. Making- a lesson plain is the best possible thing connected with teaching that a teacher can do for himself. The effort to obtain such a view of the subject in hand as will The Teachers qualify for making
The teaching problem; a message to Sunday school workers . uency ; butit is incomparably better to make this manly127 The Teaching Problem confession occasionally than to either misleadthe pupil or to be humiliated by the discoveryby keen young- eyes that you have been g-uiltyof a shallow pretense. This latter alternativeis practically the destruction of a teachers in-fluence and usefulness. Making- a lesson plain is the best possible thing connected with teaching that a teacher can do for himself. The effort to obtain such a view of the subject in hand as will The Teachers qualify for making it plain beyond Good Part ... -u ^ i • question to somebody else is a stimu-lus and self-developer whose value is inestima-ble. The study to make plain is only a step,though, to the teaching consequent upon suchstudy, which is the crown of it all. No oneknows a thing half so well until he has pains-takingly explained it to somebody else. Haveyou been looking for the teachers reward ? Avery considerable measure of it comes righthere as you go along. 128. CHAPTER XXII. SOMK PRACTICES TO AVOID. rHKREi are many widely current prac-tices in the work of teachers beforetheir classes which must be avoided bythose who would teach at least fairlywell, not to speak of those who aim atexcellence. In listing The Things I Need toDo one should not fail to place beside it inequal prominence The Thing-s I Must NotDo. What are some of these things to beshunned ? Did you ever see the pappoose bound up andstrapped to a board, and transported in thisshape on the back of the Indian mother ? This,considering- the conditions under which he is togrow up, and the life which he is tolive, may be excellent treatment for Strait-Jacketthe embryo warrior. But a child can-not be trained in the Sunday school on thatplan. Strait-jacket instruction is a effort to have the children learnin only the teachers way and see only with theteachers eyes will defeat the teachers object!The truth is t
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