Unless the hearer leaves knowing what the speaker knew when he came, the teaching process has not taken place. This would indicate that many times the pupil fails does so, at least partially, because the teacher has failed. Some speakers and professors appear to think that it would be plagiarism for the student to learn what the instructor knows. The teacher has failed when the student does not leave knowing what the teacher knew when he entered. Teaching, in a sense, is tr ansferring profound truth into simplicity so that it in turn may be transferred into profound work.
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.