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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...for its exercises. The importance of separating the primary department from the rest of the school has long been recognized; the exercises adapted to the youngest children are such as cannot well be carried forward in a room where classes are studying the lesson together. But the modern Sunday-school building ...
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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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ...for its exercises. The importance of separating the primary department from the rest of the school has long been recognized; the exercises adapted to the youngest children are such as cannot well be carried forward in a room where classes are studying the lesson together. But the modern Sunday-school building undertakes to give, so far as possible, to each class the same seclusion; and the opportunity of the teacher is greatly enlarged by this device. One teacher can more easily instruct a class of twenty or thirty pupils in a small class-room than a class of four or five when the groups are huddled together within the same enclosure. A great economy of teaching force is thus secured; and since the one difficult thing is the supply of proper teachers, this arrangement is highly serviceable to the interests of the school. The school should be brought together for the opening and closing exercises, but the classes may then be permitted to retire to their rooms for the study of the lesson. Maps, blackboards, diagrams, and the like can there be introduced in class work; and if the teacher wishes to have a serious word with the class, or a few moments of prayer with them, the pupils are neither embarrassed nor distracted by the observation of others. The question concerning the subjects to be taught in the Sunday-school has attracted much attention of late. There can be no doubt that the Bible must be the central, if not the sole subject of Sunday-school study. Various substitutes for it have been sought in the schools of some of the churches which claim to be progressive, but it is doubtful whether any of them have proved to be satisfactory. To one school belonging to an Ethical Society the Bible was restored, after a period of banishment, and the...
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