a larger proportion of adults
found in the church? What can the church school do to help? What
can your class do?

4. Do you love the matter that you seek to teach the children? Do
you love it for what it means to you, or for what through it you
can do for them? Do you look upon the material you teach truly as a
means and not as an end? Are you teaching subject matter or
children?

5. Do you feel the real worth and dignity of childhood? Do you
sometimes stop to remember that the ignorant child before you
to-day may become the Phillips Brooks, the Henry Ward Beecher, the
Livingstone, the Frances Willard, the Luther of to-morrow? Do you
realize the responsibility that one takes upon himself when he
undertakes to guide the development of a life?

6. Can you now make a statement of the measures that you will wish
to apply to determine your degree of success as a teacher? It will
be worth your while to try to make a list of the immediate
objectives you will seek for your class to attain in their personal
lives. Keep this list and see whether it is modified by the
chapters that lie ahead.

FOR FURTHER READING

Harrison, A Study of Child Nature.

Moxcey, Girlhood and Character.

Dawson, The Child and His Religion.

Forbush, The Boy Problem.

Richardson (Editor), The American Home Series.

Richardson, Religious Education of Adolescents.

CHAPTER III

THE FOURFOLD FOUNDATION[1]

[1] The point of view and in some degree the outlines of this
and several following chapters have been adapted from the author's text
"Class-Room Method and Management," by permission of the publishers,
_The Bobbs-Merrill Co._, Indianapolis.

All good teaching rests on a fourfold foundation of principles. These
principles are the same from the kindergarten to the university, and
they apply equally to the teaching of religion in the church school or
subjects in the day school. Every teacher must answer four questions
growing out of these principles, or, failing to answer them, classify
himself with the unworthy and incompetent. These are the four supreme
questions:

1. What definite _aims_ have I set as the goal of my teaching? What
_outcomes_ do I seek?

2. What _material_, or _subject matter_, will best accomplish these
aims? What shall I stress and what shall I omit?

3. How can this material best be