This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... in the temple, then the principle has interest for us as a means. There are two kinds of interest, native and acquired. By a native interest we mean any object, or situation, outside of the mind that attracts our attention. Children have an interest in things, as opposed to abstract ideas or qualities, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... in the temple, then the principle has interest for us as a means. There are two kinds of interest, native and acquired. By a native interest we mean any object, or situation, outside of the mind that attracts our attention. Children have an interest in things, as opposed to abstract ideas or qualities, especially in things that move. Every normal young man has an interest in some particular young woman, and every normal young woman has an interest in some particular young man. So, too, parents have an interest in their children. These are all native interests because they exist independently of any teacher or teaching. An acquired interest is one that we get through experience and training. In working we learn to care for animals, to build houses, to sell goods over the counter. At school we learn to read, to write, and to cipher. At home we learn to be responsible, as when a man, who was to leave home for a few weeks, asked his ten-year-old son to see that the winter coal was ordered. These all are acquired interests for the reason that we have to learn them. Now, the aim of the religious teacher is to make religion a permanent interest for the young persons of the Church, and this can be done, if it be done at all, only by grafting this interest on an interest already in their possession, either native or acquired. This work may be helped on by the application of two or three practical suggestions. First, use should constantly be made of the native and acquired interests. In the case of children the senses must be employed. Pictures, whenever possible, should be used, and drawings on the blackboard. Stories and incidents, of course, should be told, as furnishing things and persons in action. And these ought almost invariably to be told rather...
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