Moreover, the teacher enjoys the uplifting associations of his fellow teachers. Among those consecrated to a noble service, there is a spirit unknown to him who has not enjoyed such communion. Whether he is conscious of it or not, the teacher responds to the pull of such a group. Scores of teachers have testified that the associations they have enjoyed as members of a local board, stake board, or general board, are among the happiest of their lives. And finally there is the contentment of mind that comes as a result of a duty well done. The human soul is so constituted that any task well performed brings a feeling of satisfaction, and this is doubly heightened when the duty performed is of the nature of a free will offering. Still more so when it is shared in by others to their blessing. Just as we hope for an eventual crowning under the blessing, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," so we treasure those benedictions along the way that attend the discharge of a sacred obligation. * * * * * QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS--CHAPTER III 1. Quote some of the promises of the Lord to those who do His will. 2. How is teaching one of the surest guarantees of the blessings of eternal life? 3. What are the immediate joys attached to teaching? 4. Discuss the application to teaching of the truth--"He who loses his life shall find it." 5. What types of companionship are assured him who teaches? 6. As you now recall them, what distinct pleasures stand out in your teaching experience? 7. Discuss Section 76 of the Doctrine & Covenants as one of the most valuable promissory notes ever given to mankind. 8. Discuss the force of a duty done as a guarantee of joy. HELPFUL REFERENCES Doctrine and Covenants: Slattery, _Living Teachers_; Sharp, _Education for Character_; Weigle, _Talks to Sunday School Teachers_; Betts, _How to Teach Religion_. CHAPTER IV PERSONALITY OUTLINE--CHAPTER IV The worth of a great teacher.--Good teachers not necessarily born.--Some boys' observations on teachers.--A high school survey.--Clapp's _Essential Characteristics_.--Betts' _Three Classes of Teachers_.--His list of qualities. "A great teacher is worth more to a state, though he teach by the roadside, than a faculty of mediocrities housed in Gothic piles."--_Chicago Tribune_, September, 1919. We may stress the sacred obligation of the teacher; we may discuss in detail mechanical processes involved in lesson preparation; we may analyze child nature in all of its complexity; but after all we come back to the _Personality of the Teacher_ as the great outstanding factor in pedagogical success. _That something in the man_ that grips people!