" (Alma 34:18-29.)
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QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS--CHAPTER XVI
1. Why need we illustrate general truths?
2. Discuss the value of having pupils draw up their own maps.
3. Give out of your own experience illustrations of the force of
pictures.
4. Point out the value in teaching of appealing to more than one of the
senses.
5. Discuss the importance of good stories in teaching.
6. What are the characteristics of a good illustrative story?
7. Take an ordinarily commonplace subject and show how to illustrate it.
HELPFUL REFERENCES
Those listed in Chapter XIV.
Also _Pictures in Religious Education_, by Frederica Beard.
CHAPTER XVII
THE AIM
OUTLINE--CHAPTER XVII
Two illustrations of the value of an aim.--Significance of the aim
in religious training.--Inadequacy of eleventh-hour
preparation.--The teacher's obligation to see through facts to
truths that lie beyond.
What an aim is.--Illustration.--How to determine the aim.--How to
express it.
The late Jacob Riis, noted author and lecturer, used to tell a very
inspirational story on the force of having something to focus attention
upon. According to his story, certain men who lived just outside of
Chicago, in its early history, had great difficulty walking to and from
work during stormy weather, because of the almost impassably muddy
conditions of the sidewalks.
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