The Lutheran Catechist

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Catechist's Study Of The Catechumen. There can be no good pedagogics without a clear psychology. The most brilliant and most thoroughly educated teacher must fail if he does not understand Catechist should know his pupils. A large number of bright, well-equipped, child- psychology....
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Catechist's Study Of The Catechumen. There can be no good pedagogics without a clear psychology. The most brilliant and most thoroughly educated teacher must fail if he does not understand Catechist should know his pupils. A large number of bright, well-equipped, child- psychology. good-intentioned and hardworking teachers fail because they do not know those whom they are trying to teach. When that great father of philosophy and pedagogy made Know Thyself his fundamental principle, he took for granted that to know one's self is to know those whom one desires to teach. But Socrates was a teacher of adults. He had little or no concern for children. The greatest of all teachers fulfilled the prophecy that He should gather the lambs in His arms and carry them in His bosom. He loved little children. He took them in His arms and blessed them. He noted their playing in the market-place and drew lessons from it for the older ones. He set a child in the midst of His disciples, the future teachers of the Church, arid made that child teach them some much-needed lessons. The first great charge He laid upon the heart of the restored Peter was Feed my lambs. His great commission for the whole Church for all Early adolescence. Period of physical weakness. ages is summed up in two words, viz., implanting life and nurturing life, baptizing and teaching. The greatest of the Apostles corrected a prevalent and false family psychology and pedagogy when he warned the fathers not to provoke their children to wrath, but to bring them up by and in proper nurture and admonition. Jesus understood child- psychology and wanted His disciples to understand it. Paul understood it, and wanted the fathers in Christian families to understand it. No one can be a good...