Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear: Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored ChalksGriswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph)
Religion
Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear: Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks
Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph)
Chalk-talks; Moral education; Religious education
"Very often we read some very curious things. The manufacturer of one
of the well-known breakfast foods, has placed this strange statement
on the outside of each of the packages: 'Tell me what you eat and I
will tell you what you are.' It seems impossible to do this, and the
writer of the words probably had an entirely different way of
explaining how he would do it from the way we will demonstrate it here
on the drawing paper today. Let us suppose that we make the statement
that we can tell what a man is if we know what he eats. All right,
then, here is a case: There is a certain man who eats three meals a
day out of a dish shaped something like this: [Draw lines representing
Step 1 of Fig. 37.]
[Illustration: Fig. 37] [Illustration: Fig. 38]
"And then, let us suppose that the food he eats is heaped up like
this: [Add lines to change the drawing to Step 2.]
"Now, what do you think this food is? Ice cream? Ah, no, because when
I tell you that this is steam rising from the food you will know it
isn't ice cream: [Add lines to change the drawing to Step 3.]
"But you will begin to see what it is when I tell you that these two
lines represent chopsticks: [Add lines to change the drawing to Step
5.] What is it? Rice? Yes, it is rice, and we will label it in this
way. [Add the letters, to change the drawing to Step 5.]
"And now, having found out what the man eats, let us see if we can
find out who he is. [Remove the sheet from the drawing board, hold it
up and turn it over, exposing Fig. 38 to the audience. With the
attention thus centered upon your work, the boys and girls will listen
with eagerness to whatever else you may have for them.]
"And so, I tell you of another thing that we can do.
"Listen! Tell me what a boy thinks about, and I will tell you what
kind of a man he will grow up to be.
"The man who swears, thought of bad things and used bad words when he
was a boy. The man who is a thief thought about dishonest things when
he was a boy. The man who is happy and who finds it his delight to do
good, formed the habit of thinking and doing good things when he was a
boy. The man who loves his work learned to like to work when he was a
boy.
"And it is work that I want to speak about today.
"There is no place in the world for a lazy boy or girl. Nobody wants
them. Boys who hate to work are the kind that loaf around poolrooms
and pollute the air with vile cigarette smoke and language which
bespeaks an empty mind and a corrupt heart.
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