Teaching is a transfer of personality. Teaching is not only the transferring of knowledge, it is the transferring of zeal, hones ty, enthusiasm, optimism, generosity, and other traits that a good teacher possesses. This transfer of personality cannot be made if there is no teacher. This is one of the weaknesses of correspondence courses and similar forms of education. Most of us, as we think back over our childhood and youth, can remember far more of what our teachers were like than we can of what our teachers taught.
Teaching is the transfer of procedure.
Not only should the pupil learn the facts and how to adorn them with the right personality, but he should learn propriety, procedure, neatness, and orderliness if he is to be taught properly. Such lesso ns can be learned from a neat room, a clean building, an orderly presentation, and proper organization and discipline. Teaching is an incarnation of ideas. Most people cannot define such things as loyalty and patriotism. They can, however, point to someone who has these qualities.