Young children are fun to teach. For the most part they get so excited about the smallest things and they are easily amused and accept simple explanations about things they don't understand. To some extent, I've come to believe that simplicity is best when teaching basic concepts.
"Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates,"Deuteronomy 11:18-20 (NIV)
Early schools used the Bible as their primary teaching resource. It was used to teach reading, writing, vocabulary, spelling, memorization skills, some geography and history and of course theology and catechism. As old-fashioned and archaic as that may seem today, many of America's founding fathers, (George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin), learned primarily from Scriptures because that's what they had available. Yet they learned enough by reading, writing and studying the Scriptures to lead extraordinary lives that changed the face of history
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