"It is the teacher's mission to stand at the impassable gateways of young souls, a wiser and stronger soul than they, serving as a herald of science, a guide through nature, to summon the faculties within to their work, to place before them the facts to be observed, and to guide to the paths to be trodden. It is his by sympathy, by example, and by every means of influence - by objects for the senses, by facts for the intelligence, by pictures for the imagination, by stories for the fancy and the heart, to excite the minds, stir the curiosity, stimulate the thoughts, and send them forth as arriors, armed and eager for the conflict."
John Milton Gregory "The Seven Laws of Teaching" (1886)
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