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: preparation of the Bible-school curriculum this end must be borne in mind, and the matter selected partly with reference to it. In indicating the above as the aims of religious training, it is not intended to assert that these are to govern the selection of every lesson of the curriculum, for the subject-matter of any course of study has a logic of its own which must be observed; but only that they are to be kept in mind in selecting the material for the various grades and departments, and followed as general guiding principles, where not in conflict with other and possibly more fundamental ones. § 3. THE TRAINED TEACHER The other great need of the Bible school of the present day is the trained teacher. Many years ago Socrates, in a conversation with Callias, the son of Hipponicus, asked him this searching and memorable question: "Callias, if your two sons were foals or calves, there would be no difficulty in finding someone to put over them; we should hire a trainer of horses, or a farmer probably, who would improve and perfect them in their proper virtue and excellence; but, as they are human beings, whom are you thinking of placing over them?" This question would be an exceedingly pertinent one to put to the church today: Whom are you thinking of placing over the millions of human beings who gather from week to week for religious instruction? The simply consecrated teacher of the past will not do; he must give way, and the consecrated and trained teacher must take his place. This will be readily admitted if it is conceded that the Bible school should occupy the place indicated for it in the former section (see § 1), for the trained teacher is necessary to the realization of the ideal there presented. When to consecration in the teacher we add education and special peda...