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Chapter III Preparing the Lesson Some teachers think that preparing
the lesson is merely the loading of a cannon with powder, that it
may go off with a big bang in the presence of admiring scholars.
And the more powder, the bigger bang. So they load up with
scintillating similes, and pretty parables, and striking stories.
Other teachers have set up some historical or theological or
ethical target-board off at a distance from their class, and load
their cannon with ball, that their scholars may see how accurate is
their aim and how fairly they can hit the bull's-eye. So they
prepare a mass of facts and figures, arguments and evidences. But
the wise teacher rejects in Mo the cannon notion. He sees in each
lesson a ledge of that grand mountain of life?of Christ-serving,
strong life?up to which he must lead his little band, on which he
must plant their feet so firmly that they may not slip back during
the six days' interval, but may be ready for the next fair terrace,
and the next. So the wise teacher, in preparing the lesson, knows
that he must first reach that ledge himself; must repeat the
journey over and over until he has learned the easiest way for
little feet; must make ladders with rounds close together; must
spread sand on slippery places and stretch ropes along the edge of
the cliff. He, too, lays in supplies of stories and pretty
parables, not, however, in the form of powder, to make a show, but
(if this is not too severe a twist of the simile) as dainty food to
keep the young travelers fresh and hearty. He, too, has facts and
figures and arguments and evidences, not, however, as cannon-balls,
but in the shape of iron bridges and railings and ropes, that the
way may be solid and safe. There are some teachers that do not
study at all. It is as if a will-o'-th...
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