Every True Teacher Is a Student

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 2, 1908

Every True Teacher Is a Student

EVERY true teacher is a student. No love of ease, nor dread of hard work, nor false desire for wealth or honor, nor fear for the consequences of straightforward action, will hinder the true teacher from the prosecution of those studies and principles which are most essential to his work. A student is one who thinks; one who seeks not to follow the accustomed path, unless he sees it to be the shortest distance between two points. Thinkers are, after all, rare in this world. It is so easy for us to “tread the same paths that our fathers have trod.” The great law of habit prevails, not only to our advantage, but oftentimes to our hindrance in progress. The true teacher is an inventor. He continually seeks for those new appliances and economic means which will enable him to do work most effectively.