This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...himself. He must write in order to express what he has learned and fix it in memory. He must try each day to put in practice the things he has learned.. This calls for courage to face tasks bravely and that steady perseverance in work which we call industry. Children of this age have extraordinary ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...himself. He must write in order to express what he has learned and fix it in memory. He must try each day to put in practice the things he has learned.. This calls for courage to face tasks bravely and that steady perseverance in work which we call industry. Children of this age have extraordinary energy and activity, and it is therefore physically possible for them to do easily all the work that the Sunday school requires. But when we consider the child's antipathy to work, it is evident that strong incentives must be found if we are to help the children to establish the habits essential to efficiency. 3. Providing encouragements. (1) The greatest appeal. The highest and most powerful stimulus is found in an appeal to the elemental instinct of affection. The teacher who loves the children and has a high ideal for himself and for them usually awakens a corresponding love, mingled with respect and admiration. With many children the joy of pleasing such a teacher is so great as to make any kind of task delightful, however disagreeable it might seem without this motive. But there are some children who cannot at first be influenced solely in that way to undertake the regular doing of things not in line with their native interests. The question is not, How can we make each child do these things? but, How can we make him wish to do them? Fortunately for us the instincts of ambition, emulation, imitation, pugnacity, and pride develop and strengthen in the junior period. It is easy to see that each of these if untrained might become a menace to the character; but the encouraging fact is that in appealing to these natural tendencies to assist in establishing right habits we are training the instincts themselves to that higher plane whereon they...
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