Christian Education by Frederick Griggs

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 21, 1905

Christian Education

By Frederick Griggs

Conducted by the Department of Education of the General Conference. L. A. Hoopes, Chairman, FREDERICK GRIGGS, Secretary.

The Educational Department in the Review and Herald

At the time of the General Conference and for some weeks after, it was necessary to discontinue this department because of a lack of space, owing to the reports of the conference. We shall now again introduce it, and we trust that there may be no break in its regular weekly appearance.

The question is often raised as to whether an educational journal would not be very profitable for our own denominational school work. There is certainly given to us in our schools a great factor for good and for the advancement of truth. This demands of us the very highest standards. And would not a good school journal be a most substantial aid in the matter of making our schools what they should be? is the question asked. Unquestionably it would. But now, as when this department of the REVIEW was started, it is felt that the number of educational workers, together with those who would be directly interested in such a journal, is not large enough to warrant the launching of a school journal. Accordingly it is thought wise to place an educational department in one of our papers, and the REVIEW is chosen because it is our church paper, and has a general and large circulation. If we were to have a journal devoted exclusively to education and to the work of our schools, we could not hope for its appearance oftener than once a month. With the department in the REVIEW appearing each week, there is given nearly as much space in the course of a month as would be had in a monthly journal. This plan is doubtless a saving in expense. There is also another advantage in having the educational matter appear in the REVIEW, as it doubtless by this means goes into the many homes of our people, which might not be true of a journal devoted exclusively to education; and thus the great majority of our people may have kept before them the importance of the educational work.

To make this department of the REVIEW accomplish its purpose there must be the heartiest co-operation of all who are interested in the work of education, whether they are directly engaged in it or not. It must be filled with vital and interesting matter which is contributed by our school workers from all parts of the world. This matter must be practical as well as theoretical—must deal with the application of principles as well as the principles themselves. Accordingly we solicit the hearty co-operation of all our educational workers in all parts of the world that this department of the REVIEW may be all that it should be. Brief reports of schools, interesting experiences, trials of various text-books and methods of instruction, needs in various departments of the work, methods of successful financiering, the working out of the problems of industries and manual training in various grades of schools, are some of the many questions upon which we invite contributions.

F. G.