Teaching of Bible Classes, Principles and Methods

Excerpt from The Teaching of Bible Classes, Principles and Methods: With Special Reference to Classes of Young Men and Boys The needs of teachers of Bible classes for young men and boys have been especially borne in mind. The emphasis has been naturally laid in books concerning religious instruction on the characteristics of childhood and early adolescence. This is the time of character forming, and attention to religious culture during this period is in the nature both of wise construction and prevention. Attempts to make up in later life for deficiencies of education at this period must be in the nature of the case more or less pathological and corrective. And yet there must be a psychology of later adolescence to which a larger degree of attention should be given than has been bestowed upon it for the sake of those who have not had wise training in earlier years. In the selection of material for this book, this need has been kept in the foreground. One of the crying necessities of the Church and its allied organizations to-day is for trained Bible teachers. The training has a twofold aspect, looking towards a larger grasp of the subject and a better method. Such training should be marked by an endeavor to furnish comprehensive, historic, biblical knowledge, and by an endeavor to inculcate approved methods of conveying this knowledge to others. These two elements by the plan here proposed are carried along at the same time in a training class of teachers who devote a portion of the lesson period to a study of the principles and methods of teaching as outlined in these pages, and another portion to the study of a common Bible lesson which is to be taught by them during the ensuing week to classes of which they themselves are teachers. By this method the members of the training class are not only prepared to teach an individual lesson, but are familiarized with the principles which will help them in the instruction of any lesson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.