3.21.5 Promoting Class Activities Out of Hours

The Seventies who harvested the grain for the widow of one of their members did a splendid bit of service, not only for her but for their own quorum. A common objective in service made for a common bond in fellowship.

The Primary class that was stimulated to take a basket of flowers to one of its sick members was helped not only in the making of someone happy, but in building up a class spirit that guaranteed success.

There are so many possibilities open to the teacher who really cares. Just the other evening the teacher of a class of Bee Hive girls called them together for a little social entertainment that they might talk over plans for the approaching season.

What a capital attitude? Not to wait till the season opened, but to take the pains to look up the available, prospective class members and make ready for an enthusiastic campaign. Of course, such a teacher will succeed.

Class socials of all sorts, baseball teams, authors’ clubs, bits of ward service, visits to institutions of interest—scores of worthy opportunities present themselves always to the teacher who is anxious to build up a genuine class spirit. And that spirit is the one great guarantee of real joy in teaching it makes a class one which its members will always hold in memory.

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1. 3.2.6 Uplifting Association of his Fellow Teachers
2. 3.2.1 The Joy That Attends Teaching
3. 3.4.1 How To Develop Spirituality in Teaching
4. 3.20.2 Why Discipline is Important in Class
5. 3.3.5.6 Spirituality