Prevent Debating in Teachers’ Meetings
By Our Bible Teacher
THERE is no more efficacious or certain way to ruin a teacher's meeting for the study of the lessons than to allow the meeting to become a debating club. There are some who are delighted with that method, and they will take much pains to sharpen their wits, and point their arguments. But the teachers who come to learn are disappointed, and nobody is profited. The same is true of classes. Kindly, but determinedly and effectually, the teacher must hold in check all tendencies in that direction. Heresy or manifestly false teaching or opinions must, of course, not pass unnoticed; but the class is not the place to debate the questions, and no teacher who has any right conception of his work or duty will permit it.—Our Bible Teacher.