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How to Teach Religion
The Project Gutenberg eBook, How to Teach Religion, by George Herbert Betts
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Title: How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods
Author: George Herbert Betts
Release Date: May 8, 2005 [eBook #15800]
Language: English
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The Abingdon Religious Education Texts David B. Downey, General Editor Community Training School Series Norman E. Richardson, Editor
HOW TO TEACH RELIGION
Principles and Methods
by
GEORGE HERBERT BETTS
THE ABINGDON PRESS NEW YORK CINCINNATI
1926
DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO HAVE IN THEIR KEEPING THE RELIGIOUS DESTINY OF AMERICA--THE TWO MILLION TEACHERS IN OUR CHURCH SCHOOLS.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE TEACHER HIMSELF 13
Importance of the teacher--Three types of teachers--The personal factor in teaching religion--Developing the power of personality--The cultivatable factors in personality--A scale for determining personality--The teacher's mastery of subject-matter--Methods of growth--Fields of mastery demanded--Service and rewards--Problems and questions.
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