3.1.7 Inspiration of Example As Well As Precept

When Emerson declared, “What you are thunders so loudly in my ears that I can’t hear what you say,” he sounded a mighty note to teachers. Hundreds of boys and girls have been stimulated to better lives by the desire “to be like teacher.” “Come, follow me,” is the great password to the calling of teacher.

The teacher conducts a class on Sunday morning—he really teaches all during the week. When Elbert Hubbard added his new commandment, “Remember the week-days, to keep them holy,” he must have had teachers in mind.

A student in one of our Church schools was once heard to say, “My teacher teaches me more religion by the way he plays basketball than by the way he teaches theology.”

It was what Jesus did that made him Savior of the world. He was the greatest teacher because he was the greatest man.

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1. 3.1.4 Inspiration to High Ideals
2. 3.1.2 Organizing and Evaluating of Knowledge
3. 3.1.3 Interpretation and Elaboration of Truth