The Adult Worker and His Work (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...or unnecessary circumstance.... The equator need not be approached by a dissertation on the cocoanuts that grow in tropical countries." No subject should be suffered to become dry. Aim at thoroughness, but remember that any truth is many sided and capable of being variously stated. Animation is a decided aid in teaching. While not natural with all, it may be cultivated. It meets the instinctive desire for change; the animated teacher is always considered interesting. The life and movement exemplified by the teacher is imparted to the truth he teaches, and by this means the truth itself is made to live. IV. Artful Questioning Questioning occupies a prominent place in all teaching. The adult teacher, no matter what his chosen method may be, will find skillfully put questions of much use in quickening interest, arousing attention, and stimulating the The Service mental activity of the members of the class.1 of Questions, ....... in Teaching Socrates said that he asked questions in order to "bring thought to birth." This is its object in the adult class. With children questions are used for the purpose of aiding memory by repetition. The adult class should be beyond the need for this use of questions. For the purpose of inspiring thought, securing the restatement of knowledge in new forms, aiding the individual to make the application of the truth of the lesson, drawing out the best that is in the various members of the class for the benefit of all, skillfully put questions will be of the largest value. 1" The true stimulant of the human mind is a question, and the object or event that does not raise any question will stir no thought. Questioning is not therefore merely one of the modes of teaching, it is the whole of...