the child and a process of teaching on the part of an instructor. For
scientific treatment, therefore, it is possible to limit formal
education, so far as it deals with conscious adjustment, to those
modifications of experience which are directed or controlled through an
educative agent, or, in other words, are brought about by means of
instruction.


REQUIREMENTS OF THE INSTRUCTOR

Formal education being an attempt to direct the development of the child
by controlling his stimulations and responses through the agency of an
instructor, we may now understand in general the necessary
qualifications and offices of the teacher in directing the educative
process.

1. The teacher must understand what constitutes the worthy life; that
is, he must have a definite aim in directing the development of the
child.

2. He must know what stimulations, or problems, are to be presented to
the child in order to have him grow, or develop, into this life of
worth.

3. He must know how the physical, intellectual, and moral nature of the
child reacts upon these appropriate stimulations.

4. He must have skill in presenting the stimuli, or problems, to the
child and in bringing its mind to react appropriately thereon.