Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Westminster Teacher Training Course: Second Year; A Series of Forty Lessons, Designed for Use in Teacher Training Classes
This Training Course has been prepared in answer to an earnest desire among Sunday-school teachers themselves. They realize the great importance of their work and its responsibility and wish to know how they can do it better. The Course has been prepared with much thought and care. It is believed that it will guide teachers in obtaining a wider knowledge of the Bible, of the nature of their work, and of the best methods of teaching.
To-day, the wise father, desirous of giving his son the very best educational advantages, does not select a college in which there is one great teacher, to whom he sends his boy for the purpose of getting all that that one mighty instructor is able to impart. On the contrary, he chooses an institution in the faculty of which there are well-known specialists in their various departments, and places his son under their guidance. Wherefore? Because he knows that in these times of great increase in knowledge and of exact specialization, it is impossible for any one person to be prepared to be an excellent teacher in many things. Hence, instruction is sought at the hands of those who by special study have become masters in their own fields of investigation.
It would have been much easier for the Editor to have one person prepare this volume than for him to adopt the plan which he followed. This would not, however, have proved so helpful for the student. Instead of one writer six have given of their very best in the endeavor to make this text-book of the greatest value to the student. Each of these is an expert in his own particular line of study, who, after years of successful teaching, is qualified to offer that which will do the learner the most good. The number of writers will account for the differences in style and method in the various sections of the book. As a compensation, the student has the advantage of the personality of each writer as manifested in his lessons.
The time has long since passed when Bible students feared an antagonism between intellectuality and spirituality.
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