CHAPTER III

THE FOURFOLD FOUNDATION[1]

[1] The point of view and in some degree the outlines of this
and several following chapters have been adapted from the author's text
"Class-Room Method and Management," by permission of the publishers,
_The Bobbs-Merrill Co._, Indianapolis.


All good teaching rests on a fourfold foundation of principles. These
principles are the same from the kindergarten to the university, and
they apply equally to the teaching of religion in the church school or
subjects in the day school. Every teacher must answer four questions
growing out of these principles, or, failing to answer them, classify
himself with the unworthy and incompetent. These are the four supreme
questions:

1. What definite _aims_ have I set as the goal of my teaching? What
_outcomes_ do I seek?

2. What _material_, or _subject matter_, will best accomplish these
aims? What shall I stress and what shall I omit?

3. How can this material best be _organized_, or arranged, to adapt
it to the child in his learning? How shall I plan my material?

4. What shall be my plan or _method of presentation_ of this