Teaching That Makes a Difference

It has been aptly said that a teacher has not taught anything unless the pupil has learned something. That may be another way of saying that all teaching ought to make a difference. In the field of Christian education, it is imperative that we know how to teach so that growing persons are guided in making desired changes in their lives. Our concern is that this “difference” in the lives of our pupils will make them more like Jesus Christ. The “difference” that we seek is one of quality in personality.

In this very helpful volume, Irene Smith Caldwell has given us guidance in learning how so to teach that the lives of our learners will be patterned after the Christian gospel. She has underlined anew for us these principles of personality growth that every Christian teacher needs to know and to practice.

The author has written out of wide experience as a teacher who both by precept and by example has influenced thousands of people for good. In rural school-houses and in college classrooms, in small classes and in large, the author has given freely of her life and ability in the kind of teaching that truly has made a difference. The present volume carries on the very high quality of work that the author has given us in previous books in the field of Christian education. It commends itself highly to thousands of men and women who teach in the church schools of the world, and whose prayer is that always their teaching will “make a difference.” —T. FRANKLIN MILLER