Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-30

the Teachers College of the Columbia Uni
versity at 1890 am. every Sunday. from
October 1 to May 81, under the direction
Of the Union Seminary faculty and Nh
B. r. Andrews, a graduate of Cornell Until
versity, an experienced teacher both In day
and Sunday schools. All of the teachers in
this model Sunday school are either col
lege or normal school graduates, and have
been selected on account of their qualifl
cations and proved skill in instruction. All,
of them are paid for their services The
children, about fifty in number. come from
the families in the neighborhood Of Co
lumbia University and pay tuition fee
of SO a year. 1t Is the only Sunday school
l ever heard of at which a charge is made
for tuition, but it is necessary because
there is no other fund from which the
teachers may be paid.
The school is maintained as an object les
son in connection with the lay teachers
course of the Union Theological Seminary
for its students and Sunday school workers
everywhere. Every session Is attended by
visiting ministers and other religious work
ers who desire to witness the manner IN
which a model Sunday school is organized
and conducted Strangers in the city are
always welcome The sessions are held in
the Teachers College Morningside
Heights at 11Sth street and may be reached
by the Broadway cars or the subway 10
116th street. Speaking OF TINS schooi III.
Hodge said:
No one is hoping for financial gain from
this school Its managers spend much
more than they receive on its account, pul
there are numerous children within reach
who attend no other Sunday school ana
can be brought into this one There are
large number of skilled teachers on the
staff and among the students OF the Ieach-
ers College who probably can furnish
better equipment for model Sunday schooi
than any church. There is an enormous
investment there on Sundays, lying luIe.
There is an extreme vagueneSs in TINS ccuh.
,,.., iCti nG n
Sunday school. and under all these c>rcum-
stances we decided to organize q school at
the Teachers College, with the hope of its
becoming, in time, MODEL SUNDAY schooi.
Such a school will incidentally exert great
influence for lettering Sunday schools
throughout the entire country.
There is another model school at the
Union Seminary, conducted by DR.. Hodge
where the pupils are charged tuition fees
and the teachers are paid
Evolution of the Sunday School.
Il do not personally know who are the
paid Sunday school superintendent In this
city said DR.. Hodge, but am sure that
there some. Paid teachers are also
occasional. The assistant pastor often takes
charge of the Sunday school. l know of
four We have courses for lay students
which are attended by several Sunday
school superintendent, but. except three
none of them are paid salaries, so Tar as
know We have similar classes in Biblical
literature and Sunday school instruction at
Teachers College at Columbia University
Our endeavor is to train practical Sunday
school teachers and superintendent and to
induce pastors to make their Sunday schools
the chief work of their parishes Some
have done with marked success. The
Sunday school superintendent has enough
to do as an executive officer. The pastor
serves best, I think. as director of instruc-
ton. He and the superintendent would
hot t-I-. IN Il hn n ter d
ent could give all of his time.
Sunday school evolution in this city is
in the direction of grading the curriculum
and In introducing modern methods of in
structon, particularly manual work. The
employment of manual methods is compar
atively new. but has been employed at the
sity, at the Sunday class at Union Theo-
logical Seminary and at the First Union
Presbyterian Church with great success.
The results are evident enough, although
the full benefits of any new method of
teaching cannot be demonstrated until 1t
has passed the experimental stage and the
teachers have learned to use it with tech
nical correctness. Manual methods are
priced in elementary schools for the study
of history, geography, art, literature and
arithmetic. History, literature and geog-
raphy are formal studies of Sunday schools
The distinguishing principle in modern ed
ucation Is self-eXpresSion, an art which il
IS the very object of education to cultivate
and that is best done by manual methods
Self-governing Sunday school classes is
another forward movement which is being
pressed in this city"