| | About 1900 Needham Bryant Broughton (N. B. Broughton) published ''Why Sunday Schools in Baptist Churches'', which became a key text. | | About 1900 Needham Bryant Broughton (N. B. Broughton) published ''Why Sunday Schools in Baptist Churches'', which became a key text. |
| − | Between 1900 and 1920, 100 Socialist Sunday Schools (SSS) were established in 64 cities and towns in various parts of America, with probably more than ten thousand children attending. These SSS included children from 5 to 14 years of age, and they usually met for about two hours on Sunday mornings. The purpose of the SSS was “to contest more directly the overly individualistic, competitive, nationalistic, militaristic… themes prevalent in contemporary public schools and other social institutions,” and help in “supplanting capitalist social and economic relations with a more equitable and cooperative form,” namely Socialism (''Schooling for “Good Rebels”: Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920'', by Kenneth Teitelbaum.) | + | Between 1900 and 1920, 100 Socialist Sunday Schools (SSS) were established in 64 cities and towns in various parts of America, with probably more than ten thousand children attending. These SSS included children from 5 to 14 years of age, and they usually met for about two hours on Sunday mornings. According to [[Kenneth Tietelbaum]], the purpose of the SSS was “to contest more directly the overly individualistic, competitive, nationalistic, militaristic… themes prevalent in contemporary public schools and other social institutions,” and help in “supplanting capitalist social and economic relations with a more equitable and cooperative form,” namely Socialism (''Schooling for “Good Rebels”: Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920'', by Kenneth Teitelbaum, 1 January 1993.) |
| | By 1910, the Baptist and Presbyterian Churches had really taken up the banner of Vacation Bible School, formalizing the process and method of instruction, and publishing their own VBS textbooks. | | By 1910, the Baptist and Presbyterian Churches had really taken up the banner of Vacation Bible School, formalizing the process and method of instruction, and publishing their own VBS textbooks. |
| | [http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis204.htm Commentary. Socialist Sunday Schools, Dennis L. Cuddy, PhD. (newswithviews.com)] ''Socialist Sunday Schools in the United States'' | | [http://www.newswithviews.com/Cuddy/dennis204.htm Commentary. Socialist Sunday Schools, Dennis L. Cuddy, PhD. (newswithviews.com)] ''Socialist Sunday Schools in the United States'' |