Christian Education for October by Editor

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 22, 1914

Christian Education for October

By Editor

OCTOBER Education is decidedly "a magazine for home and school," as indicated on the first cover page.

The Home

Mrs. Lewis makes a plea for a home for the church-school teacher during the school year. An editorial urges a closer blending of the home and the school interests by the giving of school credit for home work supervised by the teacher and parent in cooperation. The Normal explains in detail how this plan may be carried out. The Home Education department presents the same subject from the viewpoint of the home. Mrs. E. G. White tells how to make the home a Bethel. Mrs. Lewis continues her serial, "Nature Month by Month," for parents, and explains the making of the picture quilt by the children.

The School

The frontispiece represents the noted Swiss educator Pestalozzi, with a child on each side of him in rapt attention to what he is telling them. This picture hangs on the wall of every schoolroom in Switzerland. In the first article an American observer describes the great love for children manifest in the Swiss schools, on the part of government officials, and by the people generally—a reflection of the spirit that made Pestalozzi's work so strong. It points out also other elements of success in Swiss schools. Professor Olsen's article is a clear and pointed setting forth of how he uses the Bible in the teaching of English. An editorial urges the education of the hand and mind together, and in the new department, Our Academies, Mr. Taylor tells in detail how this can be done in woodworking. Another editorial explains the plan of the three new teachers' manuals now ready, and the Normal gives copious samples from the first one off the press. "School Notes" tell of the unusually good openings of our colleges and academies.

The Ministry

Following the reports on progress in the September number, this department gives valuable notes, citations, and illustrations to accompany the Ministerial Reading Course, contributed largely by college teachers who have used the book now being read in this course. Interesting testimonials show how this course is being appreciated by the seven hundred members now taking it. See also the picture of an original cuneiform tablet found in excavating the ruins of the Biblical Erech of Genesis.