The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
In teaching, regard must be had to the faculties possessed by the pupil. In childhood, memory; in youth, the understanding; in mature life, the reason is the predominating faculty.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.
A living art of teaching, one that rests on a true understanding of the human being, has a thread of strength running through it that stimulates individual students to participate so that it is not necessary to keep their attention through direct 'individualized' treatment.
The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power.
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.