Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... to be interpreted as a teaching principle. Of course we must ntilise to the full the authority of the Bible. We shall not fail to take advantage of the feelings of obedience, reverence, and affection which attach themselves to Biblical characters, and give to the morals they convey a living force such as belongs to no profane story. At the same time we shall bring the morality which the Bible teaches into prominence rather than the authority of its prescriptions. As the late Headmaster of Harrow says, in an essay in which much stress is laid on the necessity of giving boys an insight into the facts of the Bible and their authority, "Boys' difficulties and needs are chiefly moral."1 10. Adaptation of Truth considered Generally. We may now express Plato's principle of method in the moral and religious education of the young through literature in this summary way: The truth must be adapted to their capacity for assimilation; but the foundation thus laid must be one which will support the superstructure which maturer knowledge will erect. We have seen that this is a principle which teachers will be wise in adopting. But both the principle that "all communication of ideas must be adapted to the mind of the recipient,"2 and the warning which it involves, that in such adaptation there is danger lest the truth should be irretrievably distorted, seem to be applicable to all subjects of instruction. We shall appreciate the particular application of it better if we consider it in its more general aspects. This adaptation of truth most commonly takes the form of presenting what can only be fully realised by an effort of the intellect in such a way that 1 "Thirteen Essays in Education," p. 60. 2 Bosanquet's "Companion to Plato's Republic," p. 88. an...
