Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This classroom dialogue is reported in a new manual for teachers, part of an ambitious experiment in Sunday-school education that is being launched this week by the Protestant Episcopal Church. Instead of aiming to give children some Biblical and theological background for the faith they will later join, the program undertakes to make functioning Christians of them here and now-from six-year-old Davy Crocketts...
...Like God." Although the manual warns that "the Bible, the Prayer Book and the Hymnal will be essential tools in your teaching," the chief aim of the series is to express religion in everyday, sometimes even in comic-book terms. For six-year-olds, there are three gaily illustrated booklets of stories about Tish and Mike, whose adventures make good beginnings for classroom discussions of religious truths. The booklets may well guide as many parents as children, showing Daddy and Mother coping wisely with such family crises as Mike's TV-induced nightmares and Tish's embezzlement...
Even seventh graders, according to the teachers' manual, can be brought to understanding that "they share sin with all mankind." Throughout the course of the year they may be brought back again and again to the realization that fear, deceit, stubbornness and disobedience all stem from self-concern and self-will. "Then they will be ready for the knowledge that this is what we mean by 'original...
...economic poverty have led him to lose contact with the soil and trouble of village life and to veer toward the political left. The proposed Mutual Service Program would put responsibility squarely on two hundred students at Delhi and provide them with enough money for manual service during vacations, as well as village surveys and seminars during the school year. This is hardly charity; it is not even "helping others to help themselves," in the language of Point Four; it is, rather, a new and more acceptable concept--helping others to help others...
Obviously the Russians wanted propaganda fodder from the visit. We have give them plenty--first, a year's wait for permission to enter the country; then, the carefully-selected itinerary which read like a page from an Intra-Tourist manual; and now, the business of fingerprints. This last blunder is inexcusable...