Article May 25, 1899 Issue

Questions and Answers

Is it true that the Board of Education at its January session gave out that class teaching should be stopped, or did individual members of the Board so announce?—A student of Mrs. Eddy.

It seems utterly inconsistent that the Board of Education or any member thereof should have made any such declaration or announcement, in view of the fact that the mission of the Board was to authorize a certain number of students to teach. This fact of itself should be a sufficient answer to all rumors of the kind mentioned in the above question. The Board of Education was established by due authority, and the fact that such a provision for teaching was made, coupled with the other fact that only a short while before the session of the Board, our Leader, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, had taught a class, ought to be a sufficient answer to such queries, and ought to put a quietus upon such rumors or assertions.

It is doubtless true that during the session of the Board views of its individual members were expressed upon the general subject of teaching, and some of the shortcomings and deficiencies which have been apparent in connection with class teaching were pointed out. This indeed was a part of the work of the Board; but this fact furnishes no ground for the supposition that class teaching should be dispensed with. Like everything else in Christian Science work, teaching should be placed upon the highest and best possible plane, and all objectionable features and methods remedied.

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