Show AIm YOU A TEACHER OR J JUST ST A TALKER e F O The art art of f t teaching is as ae old as th the theart e art U of g or ot of of reasoning lessoning ThErb There sire teachers and teachers but there are cne are RO so many of them who kno know w not not the first f of the a art that it becomes a joke to those who are compelled to listen Haten In the lint first place the g greatest requisite for or successful successful suc suc- teaching is that one must mut have been a good listener and one one in whom the Ue subjects s of the class are very ery confident and that can and does dOe com corn v mand that confidence from the fa fat fact t JT of of a strong pen personality Secondly the gr greatest atut class leaders have the members of a class teach tuch themselves Jo to a greater gruter or lesser leaser degree nad i in inthe n th the third place there are Ue too man manby many y by long Jong odds who d delight in hi hearin hearing g themselves talk before belore a class dan It i ia is ge e a n very very poor in fact the worst wont policy for for a class cIas leader to stand eland before re a R class and lecture for or all aU the time the class is in session BUllion It Jt is a sure way to l let t the listeners know that pompousness pompousness pom- pom is the ruling factor and that thel have bave read a lot of the things they imagine they have to impart In other other words the very surest way to display what they dont don't know More especially does this apply to the relationship re re- re- re of the religious training g of the younger ones of the ty If a class lead leader r wishes to drive the members away and sour them on the he topics of the Jesson e in a religious way h he or she has lout but to step tep aside from the subject outlined and go to delving into the past put and begin pick pick- picking picking ing plums from the dead and dry branches of historical literature and cramming it h down the throats of the class and expect them to enjoy it to the full full In its stead dead we have any number of the modern prophets prophet to quote from and we have no need to refer to those dead and gone drunken drunk drunk- en dope fiends who have passed to the great great at beyond five live hundred or perhaps a thousand years since I in have What weight their opinions our religious worship O or why must we be t compelled to listen listen to that harangue harangue har har- angue e when the time might be much more profitably spent in studying up the teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith Brigham Young Joseph Joeeph F. F Smith or Dr Talmadge than whom there are no better men in all the world to study from likewise Whitney Whitney Whit Whit- ney Roberts and a thousand others othera who might be named and every minute min ute be most profitably spent and the class as a whole be taught in the things that make for a future of joy and satisfaction in that the time inthe in inthe inthe the the class has bas been well spent These men men are are endowed by the the Holy Ghost and are prepared to fo tell us of the I beauties of the life Jile beyond and we I Ican can can be partakers of it and thereby I gain something every time we e as as- Taken as a whole a class leader Jeader if in inthe the line of doing good will get more from the opinions of the class perhaps perhaps per per- haps than they themselves realize and he will win not no tire them out with along a along along long winded discussion of something they care nothing about A lot of reading is abominable and tiring to tb the patience of many It is true we here as 88 a people are seeking after i truth in any form but why not get that truth from a devine source rath rath- rather er than from some Bome sectarian minister who knows how to tickle the ears urs of ofa ofa a a congregation and preaches for hire when we have with us every ery day those whom it were a a joy to listen to and from whom we ma may glean of the things of life eternal Then one of the main fundament fundament- fundamentals als ills of good teaching is the fact that the true teacher is the one oce who can draw out the class clau as a wh whole le and make each ach member feel Itel that he or she has a so something to tell that might be of i inestimable estimable value to 10 someone else and as such lIuch it should be known The real class leader will hold a class to the subject and not rot et each one ramble off in a variety of different fields field and pick a bite here and aDd another another an an- other there and ard as a result the t time me meis is almost wasted and so a number of those who are present fail to come the next time when the over left part of the subject in hand is to be dis dis- cussed Keep to the points and not ramble all aU over the entire field At it once orce and much more good can be ac ac- Another thing it is hard for some of the older members to hear bear well and when the class dan is held In the same room with so many others ft is II many a time This last is in reference to the classes i a of the patents parents and teachers training I People who go want to hear else what is i. the use UEe T SUBSCRIBER I |