Article February 18, 1961 Issue

The Importance of Questions and Answers

[From a teacher in a branch church Sunday School]

The Manual of The Mother Church by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, includes the following provision for Sunday School teaching (Art. XX, Sect. 3): "The next lessons consist of such questions and answers as are adapted to a juvenile class, and may be found in the Christian Science Quarterly Lessons, read in Church services."

Experience has proved the wisdom of Mrs. Eddy's requirement that questions and answers be used in Sunday School teaching, for when both teacher and pupils participate a lively and interesting instruction period is the rule. When the teacher presents thought-provoking questions to the class for consideration, the pupils are being taught to think through the answers they give, and wrong concepts are thus corrected.

Pupils too should be encouraged to ask questions. Sometimes a pupil's question may require but a quick and concise answer which provides the child with a small nugget of information. On the other hand, if the question is one which can be developed to the advantage of all, a discussion of it may be helpful.

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