Education in Religion and Morals (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XII THE RELIGIOUS IMPULSE 107. Connection At this point a new divi- between Parts I ., . J, and II. slon of our subject begins. Thus far we have been seeking to obtain a wide, perspective view of the factors, processes, and fundamental presuppositions of religious and moral education. The position that we have reached is, in brief, this: That the fnnp.t.iminf ednna.t.inn ia to assist immature numan beings to attaJDjheir proper destiny'; that the proper destiny nf men, is p'ffffipirrafl an( partly provided for in the structure of the mind; that man's mental structure is not nnly flf]np-a.l (and so demands unity with his fellow men), but also religious (and so demands union witlrQod), LIuL this religious nature is an pypression of the imme- that (jodhimself is therefore the prime mover in all true education; that the highest outward vpnlp'd "inChrist, so that God educates his children for union with himself throughis never things or ideas, but persons, and that the essential method of education is the sharing of life between a higher and a lower person whereby the principle of incarnation is carried forward in each new generation; that education is therefore awhole of which instruction is only a part; that the essential process is the self-active, and therefore free, expression of the child's personality; that the method of education is not to force or press something upon the personality, but to provide fitting material for the spontaneous expression of its higher self; that education depends, therefore, upon the child's spontaneous interests, and is to adapt itself to the various stages of the child's development; finally, that the natural line of moral and spiritual progress runs through the various social groups with which the child is in fello...