Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear - Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks by J. Griswold
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(e) Sunday school superintendents, for platform work. (f) Pastors, for use in prayer meetings and many other services of the church. (g) Temperance workers. In this department of work this book is especially worthy of consideration. (h) Those who need suggestions to help them work out their own addresses. (i) Parents for giving instruction in the home. It is a great truth that such teaching is far more effective than any which the church or the schools may provide. ~~The Value of Chalk Talks.~~ Scientists tell us that _nothing which completely occupies the mind for any length of time is ever forgotten_. This, then, is the reason that the chalk talk method of teaching is so lastingly impressive. People forget everything else while watching a speaker draw a picture. And if they do that, they can never completely forget the words of the speaker or the picture he draws. A baby that doesn't know one letter from another can understand some pictures as well as _you_ can. Try him once and see. And if he lives to be a hundred years of age, he will receive more lasting impressions from pictures than from what he reads. Your audience, therefore, may be |
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