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Show WHAT IS NECESSARY IF YOU WOULD j TAKE UP TEACHING PROFESSION? j j The aucceasful teacher muat poaaaaa a three-fold equipment. Ha muat ba fa. miliar with tha aubject In which he pro. ! poaea to five Instruction and poaeeas a l broad Intellectual outlook which com. I mande and d.aervoa tha reapect of hla aludrnta and colleagues. Ha muat acquire either by precept oe j experience the techalg.ua of hia profession profes-sion Most Important of all. he muat be Ik ' love wtth h: work and hava sympathy ' with, and re.peet for. younj.r people. I It la loo common nowadaya for a proa-Ipectlve proa-Ipectlve teacher to feel that tha thorough knoa-ledae of method Is a aubatltuta for 1 tha thorough Rroundlna In subject matter. I If a man Is capable of becomlnc a flrat claas teacher and possesses a genius for Instructton. tha amount of method required re-quired for effective work on hla part ia. In my opinion, comparatively alight. Oreat emphsaia on method may convert con-vert a third claaa teacher Into a second class one. It rarely makes a flrat clasa Instructor. The flrat and moat Important consideration consider-ation for ma If I ware planning to teach wo-jld ba a thorough knowledge of my aubject. If a man forgeta how It fcela to be Immature Im-mature and youthful, he never can ba aucceaaful aa a teacher. Unle.s hia sympathies sym-pathies remsin alive and unless hs la aula to Imagine himself In the state of mind af a peraon who la quite Ignorant of tha subject which hs Is teaching, the moat effective Inatructlon la Impossible. This capacity to retain the point of view of another generation la rare but Indtspenslble If a man la to make the graateat auccesa la tha profeaaion of teaching. |