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Show Magazine article by school head tells what makes good teacher Russell N. Stansfield, superintendent super-intendent of the Nebo School District, is the author of an article ar-ticle on classroom teaching published in the summer issue of "Peabody Journal of Education" Edu-cation" magazine. In the article, Supt. Stansfield Stans-field expresses the thought that far too many teachers are not screened carefully enough before being allowed to go into the classroom and mold the lives of their young charges. He asks: "How many universities univer-sities and schools of higher education are concerned enough with the human side of teaching teach-ing of the setting up of right attitudes toward living and, at the same time, providing teacher teach-er training which will enable young men and women to carve out for themselves successful suc-cessful careers in life?" "A good teacher gives an impression to his students of his complete honesty and sincerity," sin-cerity," he says, "for he is the kind of man who is the hope of society because he becomes be-comes the motive power by which society thinks." The six-page article closes with this thought: "The teacher teach-er who is interested in and who loves people; who is prepared pre-pared as well as he can possibly pos-sibly be; who spends time that someone else's child might benefit, will be the teacher long respected, longer remenv bered, and best loved. Supt. Stansfield writes that a good teacher believes with all of his heart the words of Thornton Wilder, "There are few pleasures equal to that of imparting to a voracious learner learn-er the knowledge that one has grown old and weary in acquiring." ac-quiring." Mr. Stansfield is a former professor of the School of Business at Brigham Young University. |