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Why do I teach? To appreciate fully the real purposes behind teaching is the first great guarantee of success. For teaching is
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--it is a sacred calling--a trust of the Lord Himself under the divine injunction,
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Feed my sheep (John 21:15). For the teacher who has caught a glimpse of his real responsibility there is no indifference, no eleventh-hour preparation, no feeling of unconcern about the welfare of his pupils between lessons--for him there is constant inspiration in the thought,
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To me is given the privilege of being the cupbearer between the Master and His children who would drink at His fountain of truth.
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The Great Industrial Church,
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The Church of Pioneers,
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The Church of Wonderful Organization. It might well be called
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The Teaching Church. There is scarcely a man or woman in it that has not at some time been asked to respond to the call of teacher. Our people have been a remarkable people because they have been remarkably taught--taught of the Lord and His prophets. Our future can be secure only as it is guaranteed this same good teaching. Every teacher must come to realize that
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Mormonism is at stake when he teaches.
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Why do I teach?
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of the Father. Man is born into the world a child of divinity--born for the purpose of development and perfection. Life is the great laboratory in which he works out his experiment of eternity. In potentiality, a God--in actuality, a creature of heredity, environment, and teaching.
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Why do I teach?
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The child is born into the world half angel, half imp. The imp develops naturally, the angel has to be cultivated. The teacher is the great cultivator of souls. Whether we say the child is half angel and half imp, we know that he is capable of doing both good and evil and that he develops character as he practices virtue and avoids vice. We know, too, that he mentally develops. Born with the capacity to do, he behaves to his own blessing or condemnation. There is no such thing as static life. To the teacher is given the privilege of pointing to the higher life. He is the gardener in the garden of life. His task is to plant and to cultivate the flowers of noble thoughts and deeds rather than to let the human soul grow up to weeds. This purpose becomes all the more significant when we realize that the effects of our teaching are not only to modify a life here of three-score and ten--they are impressions attendant throughout eternity. As the poet Goethe has said,
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Life is the childhood of our immortality, and the teachings of childhood are what determine the character of maturity. The thought is given additional emphasis in the beautiful little poem,
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Planting,