The gospel object book : $b A hand-book on object teaching for ministers, teachers of children and adultsWoolston, C. H. (Clarence Herbert)
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The gospel object book : $b A hand-book on object teaching for ministers, teachers of children and adults
Woolston, C. H. (Clarence Herbert)
Children's sermons
Somewhere I read the other day, about the boy who was present when
Christ was feeding the multitude and this was the analysis that the
teacher made of the boy with the loaves and fishes. First you will
always find the boy in a crowd. Second, he always looks out for his
stomach and so brought with him his lunch. Third, he can be worked and
won if he is approached in the proper way, and to find the proper way
is to find the golden key which unlocks a golden heart that will
welcome the entrance of the golden truth of Jesus. One of the first
principles of the knowledge of a child is that he is all eyes.
Psychologists tell us that we see eighteen times more than we hear,
but no psychologist has ever been able yet to figure out how much a
boy can see. It seems to me that he sees fifty times more than he
hears. That has been my experience, as I have labored with a million
and a half boys and girls. Hence it is the first principle of the art
of knowing children, the quickest and best way to teach them is
through the eye, and so the use of pictures and objects and all things
which appeal to the child's eye are master keys that unlock hearts.
They receive the impressions through the eye, and these they seldom
ever cast away. In discovering a child, always remember what a child
may be and what he is now. We must have this long look into the future
or we won't be able to look into the present, He is a whole congress
of possibilities. Possibilities are the seeds that may germinate into
a mighty force for good or evil.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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