Improved Sunday School teaching begins with the earnest longing to teach better.
One woman we know of had taught Sunday School off and on for many years, but never felt she was a good teacher. This, she had to admit, must only be partly true, for many former pupils still kept in touch with her, expressed their affection, and had retained their interest in Christian Science. Yet there were many others whom she had never reached. And she had never known the joy of a class bristling with questions, avid for discussion, hungry for Truth.
It seemed to her she lacked the talent for communicating with the young or for getting them to take active part in the class. However hard she tried—and she had tried with all her might—her classes were at best acquiescent, at worst disinterested. Sundays were often an agonizing disappointment. Every once in a while she would give up and resign from the teaching staff, convinced that the children would do better under a more skillful hand.
