t opportunities has the Intermediate age?

8. What must be guarded against in urging decision at this time?

9. What years are included in the Senior age?

10. Why are doubts to be expected in this age?

11. What results should be aimed at with Seniors?

12. What is meant by "maturity"?

13. What is the goal for this age?

NOTE.--A helpful treatment of the whole subject of child nature is
found in Mrs. Lamoreaux's book "The Unfolding Life."

THE TEACHER

MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH, Ph.D., LL.D.

LESSON PAGE
1. What the Teacher Should Be 181
2. What the Teacher Should Know 184
3. What the Teacher Should Do 187
4. What the Pupil Should Do 190
5. What Teaching Is 193
6. What an Educational Principle Is 198
7. What an Educational Method Is 201
8. What the Concrete Means in Teaching 205
9. What Instruction, Drill, and Examination Can Do 209
10. What Will-Training Leads To 212

Teaching Hints

Leaders of classes, and individuals pursuing these studies
apart from classes, are urged to read the chapter entitled
"Teaching Hints," on page 259, before beginning this section

Lesson 1

What the Teacher Should Be

#1. The Value of Character.#--We teach more by what we are than by
what we know. Emerson once said, "What you are thunders so loud I
cannot hear what you say." Everywhere the character of the teacher is
counted a vital part of his equipment. Even in secular schools the
teacher is required to possess a good moral character. How much more
should we demand high moral and spiritual standards of the teacher in
the Sunday-school! But mere goodness is not enough. We must demand, in
addition to personal worth, certain other salient qualities in the
person who stands before childhood as a teacher of God's truth.

#2. Training Always Needed.#--There is a common notion that teachers
like poets are born, not made. This is fallacious for two reasons: (a)
we do not know till we try whether or not we can teach; (b) we do know
now that the greater number of teachers are made by training and not
by inherited qualities. Then, too, we are told that born teachers need