Institute
That You May Instruct More Perfectly


“That You May Instruct More Perfectly,” Teaching Seminary: Preservice Readings (2004), 46

“That You May Instruct More Perfectly,” Teaching Seminary, 46

That You May Instruct More Perfectly

Excerpt from Improvement Era, August 1956, 557

There are three things which must guide all teachers: first, get into the subject; second, get that subject into you; third, try to lead your pupils to get the subject into them—not pouring it into them, but leading them to see what you see, to know what you know, to feel what you feel.