What personal qualities are desirable in a teacher？ Probably no two people would draw up

approximately similar lists, but I【M1】______ think the following would be generally accepted. Firstly, the teachers personality should be pleasant live and【M2】______ attractive. This does not rule on people who are physically plain,【M3】______ or even ugly, because many such have great personal charm, but it does not include those who are over-exciting, melancholy, frigid,【M4】______ sarcastic, cynical, frustrated, and over-bearing: I would say too, that it includes all of dull or purely negative personality.【M5】______ Secondly, it is not merely desirable and essential for a teacher【M6】______ to have a genuine capacity for sympathy—in the literacy meaning【M7】______ of that word; a capacity to tune in to the minds and feelings of other people, especially, since most teachers are school teachers, to the minds and feelings of children. Finally, I think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. Teaching is a job which one will【M8】______ never be perfect; there is always something more to learn about it. There are three principal objects of study: the subject, or subjects, which the teacher is teaching; the methods by which they can best be taught to the particular pupils in the classes he is teaching to;【M9】______ and—by far the most important—the children, young people, or adults to those they are to be taught.【M10】______

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