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• They should leave their personal problems and nonteach- ing responsibilities behind.
• They should remember that the student has never heard any of this before.
• They should make an event out of the class.
• If they enjoy themselves, their students will enjoy them-
selves—and learn.
• Above all, they could get more attention and have
greater impact if they stopped thinking about them- selves as disciplinarians and remembered that their func- tion is communication.
Again, if whoever is in the front of the room isn’t communi- cating, that person is not a teacher. That’s why I like to think of teaching not merely as a speaking process, but as a selling process too.
In no profession more than the teaching profession are these words more meaningful:
No one has the right to be dull.