on, Chairman
Teacher Training Committee

_Contents_

Chapter Page

Preface vii
I Purposes Behind Teaching 1
II What Is Teaching? 7
III The Joys of Teaching 14
IV Personality 20
V Personality 26
VI Attainment 33
VII Native Tendencies 40
VIII What to Do With Native Tendencies 46
IX Individual Differences 53
X Individual Differences and Teaching 61
XI Attention 68
XII What Makes for Interest 74
XIII A Laboratory Lesson in Interest 80
XIV The More Immediate Problems in Teaching 88
XV Organizing the Lesson 96
XVI Illustrating and Supplementing a Lesson 103
XVII The Aim 111
XVIII Application 116
XIX Methods of the Recitation 126
XX Review and Preview 134
XXI The Question as a Factor in Education 142
XXII The Problem of Discipline 149
XXIII Creating Class Spirit 157
XXIV Conversion--The Real Test of Teaching 164
Bibliography 171

_Preface_

That ever-old question, "How to Teach," becomes ever new when made to
read, "How to Teach Better." This volume aims to raise those problems
which every teacher sooner or later faces, and it attempts to suggest an
approach by way of solution which will insure at least some degree of
growth towards efficiency. These chapters originally were prepared for
the course offered to teacher-trainers in the Summer School of the
Brigham Young University, in 1920. The teachers in that course were an
inspiration to the author and are responsible for many of the thoughts
expressed in the pages of this book.

The successful teacher ever views his calling as an opportunity--not as
an obligation. To associate with young people is a rare privilege; to
teach them is an inspiration; to lead them into the glorious truths of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ is heavenly joy itself. This little volu