Training the TeacherLamoreaux, Antoinette Abernethy
Religion
Training the Teacher
Lamoreaux, Antoinette Abernethy
Bible -- Study and teaching; Sunday schools
(b) Desire for appreciation. An intense longing is
experienced to have talents, accomplishments, wits,
efforts--everything which pertains to self valued at par or
above. For this cause there is frequent public parade of
wares, as in the case of the smart youth or the girl who
draws attention to herself by loud talking and laughter. The
same longing works self-consciousness, embarrassment, and
awkwardness in others who feel themselves deficient, neither
class as yet apprehending the truth that character, not
external show, wins the truest meed of praise from the world.
(c) A sense of approaching manhood and womanhood. This makes
the life sensitive beyond expression to reproof or criticism,
particularly in public. It also explains the restlessness and
desire to enter at once upon the life-work.
(4) _Increasing Social Appetite._ The boy who said in answer to a
remonstrance over his presence in the billiard hall and bowling alley,
"A fellow has got to have fun somewhere," voiced the sentiment of all
his confrères in the Intermediate period. The desire for good times is
paramount, and its right indisputable in the conception of the young
people. The delight in healthy outdoor sports continues with the
athletically inclined, and ought to be fostered as a safety valve for
surplus energy, a diverter of self-centered thought, and a tonic for
excitable nerves. In the latter part of this period, however, the love
of fun gives place to a love of functions, either the helpful sort of
social commingling or the danger-filled type, marked by late hours,
excitement, and overwrought imagination. This transition comes from a
growing mutual attraction between the sexes which has succeeded the
repulsion evident in the early part of the period.
(5) _The Development of the Altruistic Feelings._ Though these
feelings are not unknown to childhood, their vigorous development does
not begin until the Intermediate period. The pupil now experiences an
impulse from within to sacrifice for others and make his life a source
of blessing. The new sense of God and his claims intensifies and
vitalizes the desires. Unselfishness appears, interest in the welfare
of others as well as self, and willingness to do for them even at
personal cost. These are the feelings that make it possible to say
"Brother," and to love the neighbor as one's self. They can come only
as the meaning of life is better understood. They can remain only as
they are given constant expression in action.
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