3.10.2.4 Intimately The Life of Kids

A further aid in holding interest is to know intimately the life of the boys and girls taught.

To appreciate fully their attitude—to know what sort of things in life generally appeal to them—is a very great asset to any teacher.

If a teacher knows that a boy’s reaction to the story of the Israelites’ crossing the Red Sea is that that story is “some bunk,” he is fortified in knowing how to present other subjects which are similar tests to a boy’s faith and understanding.

To know pupils’ attitudes and mode of life is to know what sort of illustrations to use, what emphasis to put upon emotional material, what stress to lay on practical application. In short, it is to know just how to “connect up.”

It stimulates to a testing of values so that a teacher selects and adapts his material to the needs of the boys and girls whom he teaches.

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