Excerpt from Teachers Book of Old Testament Heroes: A Course of Study, Beautifying and Glorifying the Moral and Religious Qualities of Old Testament Characters
The aim of religious education is the development of the religious nature. This it seeks to accomplish through the creation of ideals, the cultivation of right feelings, the formation of right judgments as to what things constitute the higher values, and the awakening in the pupil of a consciousness of God in himself and in the world. From these naturally proceed personal choices and impulses to God-like action. Religious education succeeds when it thus grows some permanent religious interest.
The three institutions which have a duty in the religious education of our people are the home, the school, and the church. Present conditions throw most of the responsibility upon the church. The church through its Sunday schools is trying to meet that responsibility. It is filled with a passion to get a more perfect result. After passing through different stages of growth the ideal is now the graded school.
The principles which underlie a graded school are these: 1. The suitability of lesson material to the mental grasp, dominant interest, and religious motive of the pupil. 2. The adaptation of method to the age of the pupil and the subject taught. 3. The grouping of pupils into departments and classes according to one or more of the conditions mentioned under 1. 4. The advancement of pupils from grade to grade, while the teacher remains in the same grade or department. 5. A new equipment: class-rooms, tables, note-books, etc., demanded by these ideals.
The Graded Sunday School Publishing Company is organized in furtherance of this new passion and these ideals. Old Testament Heroes is one contribution in the movement toward a better school.
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