The Right Kind | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 9, 1882

The Right Kind.

THE same characteristics which will make an individual a successful teacher in a day-school, will, with the blessing of God, make him a successful Sabbath-school teacher. The following incident shows one of the indispensable qualifications of a good teacher:—

Said one of the patrons of a school, not long since, when applying for a teacher: “I wish we could get such a teacher as we had last year, he taught the children hundreds of things they never thought of before, and my boy has pestered me with questions ever since; he will scarcely give me any rest; he tells me everything he has ever heard there, and relates to me all the stories in his reading-book, and makes comments upon everything.” He could not have paid a higher compliment to the former teacher. The teacher had succeeded in awakening in the pupil’s mind a desire to know. Curiosity, that great incentive to the acquisition of knowledge was fully aroused. —Educational News.