Patience
Patience, unfaltering patience, has won the victory for many a teacher. How often has a teacher labored hard to present a lesson, only to return and find no good results from the effort. The teacher may not always be at fault. Some child may have grasped every detail, another under the same instruction, not even the larger facts; but we all know that not all children are equal in the ability to comprehend. The conditions that enable one to learn may not have been so advantageous for another. It is not wise to become disheartened and scowl over the apparent failure of a child. The teacher would fail if the same conditions hindered him. If the teacher, after being sympathetic and taking into consideration the environment of the child, then discovers indifference to studies, the time may have come for firmer methods, but even then patience will go a long way in obtaining results.