By Margaret Cooling
Stapleford Project Books (ACT), 1995
390 pages. £11.95
ISBN 0 9516537 3
Having occasionally wondered whether the Book of Proverbs could be used as a source for collective worship in school, I was delighted to find that someone else had had the same idea and acted upon it.
As Margaret Cooling writes in her introduction: 'Many of the proverbs are universal in their application, which makes them very suitable for schools.' She has taken some of the proverbs associated with home life (giving advice for parents and children), and the village (giving advice for living in the wider community) and used them as a basis for 70 lively assemblies which enhance the spiritual and moral development of pupils and the opportunity for the 'broadly Christian worship' required by the 1988 Education Act.
