Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-13

IA HY task. ne gnnouuc i'm the !rI.
NE gram. ST. t. explain tlo vn'ug
OF pictures In tho Religion class
Bat q ur!pr task. as { think 3,
10 make clear the underlying idea OF the
lessoa rs for The corning year Othc
Wise l shall hardly be able % say any
thing very satisfactory about my topic.
so / shall FIRST take The liberty OF lay.
Ing bef0r. you what mas been decided
upon with rcslec, to the plan OF our
next lesson book. ANA chen of tryin f;
10 say some hing specific about the us,
% pictures as AN MD ga pr, emitting rc-
lglun class lessons
In the frs place. 90 has been thought
best 10 have plan OF lesson. GOVERNS
two years. Tho fast years work viii
be published this year and 90" SECOND
years next year For the tnIrI year
all the lessons given the two years pre-
Ceding VIII be published, with such re-
vision as may be deemed necessary
all the Wu-k for the primary depart
ment in on volume, that for the FIRST
intermediate department. tn another.
that FOR the second intermediate grid,
in still another. and that FOR th, adj
Vanced in fourth. For the general
board has decided 10 have four dee
pnrtments instead OF three as hereto
fore The advantage of this separate
printing Of department lessons Is three
fold First the teacher viii have
thereafter all the Lessons as early Ia
the season as he wishes. which has
hitherto boon impossible: second. the
instructor In any one department VIII
not be required 10 purchase the lessons
In any other department. and,
third, the teachers I'm each department
~ill have access 10 so lessons instead
OF only 30 For IL d. the intention L.
arrange the lessons In such q way that
t. Instructor may take up amy lesson
al time whom no thinks 10 will be
most opportunc for his class instead of
having TO take 10 up In any definite
order
Secondly IL has been decided to print
IN the first two departments OF the les
son book such Illustrative stories a.
may be needed our chief difficulty
heretofore as you know has been To
get suitable material FOR stories. Ana
narrative Is one of the clearcst, most
concrete. and most Interesting ways Of
communicating Ideas to children Even
Bitle stories viii be retold in the les
COOKBOOK. because FOR the most part the
material is sc, tered and beside point
may be gained 100 the method Of roteli-
Ing II. For II Is harder than Is general
~ supposed To tell Biblical narratives
so that children win get the right ideas
from them, and that because OF the
strange words and phrases In which
those stories for the most part are told
All the stories that appear In the les
son book viii have been written cs-
reclally for the Religion classes, and
the material will be taken not only
from our own history and literature.
but from any other source that viii
give US what We want
TO GIVE CLEAR IDEAS.
Thirdly. the underlying thought Of
the lessons throughout Will be- first,
to give clear 10 cas- TO the children re-
specting what they ought to do, and
then 10 direct their conduct by way
Of getting the class habtually TO ex-
press those ideas in their lives. This
statement needs a word OF explanation.
The process Of education IN the child |
should, and generally does where Il Is |
left to itself. take on this form: First |
the child gets the idea; next IL as
Stimulates the idea, that Is, makes the |
idea part of It's mental and spiritual |
equipment. and then It expresses the |
idea in some form, usually an act.
This Is the natural method When |
child gets an idea there Is always n |
tendency to do something by way OF |
expressing that idea. Now, in most |
eases perhaps, we religion class work.
ers shall md that the children are al
ready in possession Of tho ideas We |
wish them 10 have. In that case, our /
chief concern viii be 70 bring these /
into greater clearness, TO take them. |
so to speak. out OF the clouds OF their l