(Second in a series by the Sunday School Division of The Mother Church.)
We're witnessing today a kind of educational warfare for the minds and bodies of children. Theories of child development, communication, and learning based in humanistic or behavioral psychology are clamoring for arbitrary acceptance. Yet much of this approach to education conflicts with the spiritual concept of man and the spiritual approach to teaching in the Christian Science Sunday School. Mary Baker Eddy tells us: "The present codes of human systems disappoint the weary searcher after a divine theology, adequate to the right education of human thought."Science and Health, p. 234;
Church members preparing to teach in Sunday School do need to understand what learning and communication are. But we can best gain this knowledge from Christian Science itself rather than resorting to human theories.
