t is some definite act, not the spirit nor life of the
actor. He does not aspire to resemble the character of the teacher,
but he does try to speak and move and look as she does. As the action
is performed, the life unconsciously but surely becomes like the one
who is imitated.

(3) _Curiosity._ Because the child has everything to learn God has
made him want to learn everything. As physical hunger arouses an
effort to supply the need for physical food, so mental hunger or
curiosity arouses an effort to supply mental food. It is most active
in the period of greatest absorption, when the life must store for
future use. There are two points in relation to curiosity which it is
important for the Sunday-school teacher to remember.

(a) Its field of operation, or that toward which it is
directed. Curiosity is selective, going out only toward those
things in which the life is interested. In this period the
child's interests are in activities in Nature and everyday
life and in the things about him; but he desires to know
only the simplest facts concerning them. What the object is,
where it came from, and what it will do, usually satisfy his
curiosity regarding it. The teacher, therefore, is guided in
the selection of what shall be given the child in a lesson.

(b) Its channels of operation or that through which it acts.
The channels through which curiosity reaches out for
knowledge and brings back the results of its search are the
senses. Every waking moment finds them taking in sensations
which are carried to the brain through the nervous system.
The more perfect the senses in their working the more correct
the message they bring. Failure to learn and inattention are
usually caused by some defect in the senses or other part of
the body.

While an adult can arrive at new ideas through other ideas,
the child must receive practically all his ideas through his
senses. This guides the teacher as to the method of
presenting the lesson.

(4) _Fancy._ This is the early form of imagination, unleashed and
untrammeled, which transforms objects, gives soul to inanimate things
and creates for the child his own beautiful play world.

(5) _Self-interest._ The beginner himself is the center of his little
world. His thinking and his feeling revolve around his own
personality, and his own advantage is the thing he constantly seeks.
This is God's ord