3.4 Attainment

While we may agree as to what constitutes the desirable characteristics in teachers it is far easier to name them than to attain them. We have already pointed out that teaching is a complex art proficiency in which is the result of a long, painstaking process.

But success in teaching as in all other pursuits is possible of achievement. We have heard so frequently that teachers must be born, not made, that many prospective teachers, feeling that they have been denied this pedagogical birthright, give up in despair.

Of course, it is naturally easy for some individuals to teach—they do seem born possessed of a teaching personality, but they are not given a monopoly on the profession.

The Lord has too many children to be taught to leave their instruction to a few favored ones.

The qualities listed in chapter five may be developed, in varying degrees, of course, by any normal person anxious to serve his fellows. The “will to do” is the great key to success.

Related posts:

1. 3.3 Personality
2. 3.3.5 Fundamental Principle of Teacher
3. 3.3.3 Desirable Capabilities
4. 3.2.1 The Joy That Attends Teaching
5. 3.3.5.3 Optimism