p. 231 | TEACHERS' MEETINGS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 8, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 15

TEACHERS' MEETINGS.

No home study of the lesson can take the place of its examination in teachers' meeting. The best teacher in the world needs the help of his fellow-teachers in finding out what is in that lesson, and what others want to know about it. It is one thing to learn for one's self; it is quite another thing to learn for others. A teacher has to learn for others. To do this he must have the help of others. Many a teacher who has studied a lesson thoroughly by himself would find, on attending a teachers' meeting, that points to which he had given little attention, or which seemed simplest to him, were most puzzling to some of his fellow-teachers. And again, a point which he had quite overlooked in his studies would be brought into special prominence by the incisive question or the bright comment of another teacher. In fact, if a teacher knows everything about the lesson, he needs a comparison of his views with others, to show him the wants of those not so well prepared as himself, and to guard him against the danger of taking too much for granted as to the intelligence of his scholars. On the other hand, if a teacher does n't know everything about the lesson,—which is quite probable, however much he has studied it,—he is likely to gain in knowledge through the study of those who have been making a preparation quite apart from his own. A really good teacher always knows that he cannot prepare himself for his Sabbath duties so well without the aid of a teachers' meeting as with it. A teacher who thinks that he has nothing to gain from a teachers' meeting lacks as yet three things: how to study, how to learn, and how to teach.—S. S. Times.