In the Bible more than in any other book are reviews needful and valuable. Not only does the Bible most require and most repay repeated study, but most of all ought Bible knowledge to be familiar to us, if it be, as is claimed, the Word of God. Its words and precepts should rest clear and precise in the thoughts as the dictates of duty and the prophecies of destiny. Any exercise may serve for a review which recalls the truth to be reviewed. One of the best and most practical forms of review is the calling up of any fact or truth learned and applying it to some use.
Nothing so fixes it in the memory or gives such a grasp of it to the understanding.
Thus the multiplication table may be learned by orderly repetitions of its successive factors and products, but its frequent review and use in daily computations alone give us that perfect mastery of it which makes it come, as it were, without call, and serve us as if a native part of the mind itself. The ready skill of artisans and professional men in recalling instantaneously the principles and processes of their arts or professions is the product of the innumerable repetitions of daily practice. This kind of review is available in all cases in which the learner can be called upon to apply the truths learned to the answer of common questions, the solution of problems, the conduct of any process, or the performance of any series of acts. The art of the teacher, in this work, lies in the startling of questions or finding which shall require the use of the knowledge he wishes to have reviewed. The use of the pen and pencil in review work ought by no means to be forgotten.