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THE MAKING
of a TEACHER

A CONTRIBUTION TO SOME PHASES OF
THE PROBLEM OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

BY

MARTIN G. BRUMBAUGH, Ph.D., LL.D.

Professor of Pedagogy in the
University of Pennsylvania

PHILADELPHIA

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES COMPANY

1905

.68

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

MONROE & GUTMAN LIBRARY

BOUND JAN 7 1913

COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES COMPANY.

Entered at STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON, 1905.

ENTERED ACCORDING TO The Act of Parliament of Canada,
IN THE YEAR 1905, BY THE SUNDAY SCHOOL TIMES
COMPANY At the Department

OF AGRICULture.

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INTRODUCTION.

The opening chapter of Genesis is a record of transcendent things. It reveals God at work. He is recorded as creating the physical universe and all the life that subsists upon it. Among the interesting phrases descriptive of his activity, none is of greater moment than the phrase "Let us make man." So far as we know, this proposition involved the production, out of crude material, of a wholly new creature. Man is a new creation, not a new combination. In a vastly more restricted sense, but in harmony with the same central idea, it has seemed to me wise to name this volume" The Making of a Teacher," instead of "The Training of a Teacher." The training of a teacher assumes that we have the teacher at the beginning of the process and that our work is to modify something already provided. This does not describe accurately the process by which we are to secure teachers. A teacher is something different from a man. To make a teacher involves a new creation out of the raw materials which constitute humanity at large. We must create a new product. This new product is the teacher. The teacher is more than a man trained to be a different kind of a man. He is a new

product, the result of making over again in a new order and with additional elements the primitive material which God has placed fundamentally in every human being. To the extent that we comprehend the vast difference between what we are by native endowment and what we become by specific training will we understand the significance of the problem with which we have to do.

Education is more than a transforming process, it is a creative process. By it we become a new creature. Our problem then would seem to be, in its broad aspects, a study of what our native common endowments are, and a study of what educational processes at work upon this native material may produce. The emphasis of study should rest upon the second of these propositions. At the outset we shall believe in the creative value of education. We are warranted both by experience and by study in believing that education is a far-reaching and momentous influence. To be a man, man must be educated. To be a teacher, man must be made over again into a new agency. No fixed and rigid laws can determine what this making over implies, since the teacher must from time to time be made into an agency adequate to the needs of a changing and growing Christian civilization. The accepted teacher of yesterday is by no means the accepted teacher of to-morrow. We shall understand our

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