3.2 The Joys of Teaching

Chapters one and two emphasized the thought that the purposes behind teaching impose a sacred obligation on the part of those who aspire to teach. But lest the obligation appear burdensome, let us remind ourselves that compensation is one of the great laws of life.

“To him who gives shall be given” applies to teaching as to few other things. Verily he who loses his life finds it.

The devotion of the real teacher, though it involves labor, anxiety and sacrifice, is repaid ten-fold.

Only he who has fully given himself in service to others can appreciate the joy that attends teaching—particularly that teaching enjoined upon us by the Master and which is its own recompense.

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