He likens the metaphysical value of teaching to other natural laws. Nowhere, in the world of the mind or in the world of matter, can man produce any effects except as he employs the means upon which those effects depend. It's not a one-way process that Gregory advocates, but a team approach to teaching and learning. All explanation and exposition are useless except as they serve to excite and direct the pupil in his own thinking. The Seven Laws reclaims the fine art of teaching by identifying its essential principles.
Teaching is an Art.
To do it well we must follow certain principles of teaching, which include the laws of learning. It would take an extraordinarily perceptive and clever teacher to apply these principles in a standard classroom. Fortunately, homeschoolers don't have the limitations that school teachers face with 30 students in a typical class. We know our students intimately, we know how they learn best, and we have a vested interest in teaching them well so as to encourage a lifetime love of learning. They are our children, and we are their teachers.