This section is not about how you should love teaching. It is about how you should engender the love for your subject in your students.

This differs from the usual information given to new teachers. Departments of education, schools, principals, conferences, books, articles, and other resources are filled with advice about how to teach different subjects. Unfortunately, they do not stress the two overwhelming goals that are needed in order to be able to teach any subject:

• The student should love the course
• The student should feel control over the material

The concept of love is discussed elsewhere.

The other quality, control, enables a student to master the material. This does not mean that he will be an expert in it. However, the student should not feel flustered and horrified at the thought of dealing with the subject area by himself.

For example, a student of computers should be able to handle problems that arise; a student of translation should feel comfortable and relaxed when translating, and so on.

Engendering love and control should be the goals of any teacher. If the teacher has been able to engender a feeling of love and control then he has succeeded.

On the other hand, if the teacher has presented a great deal of material, given a lot of exercises and tests, and then he has spoken a great deal without giving the feeling of love and control, then he has failed.