Teach ye diligently

Everyone is a teacher - and everyone can learn to teach better. That is the theme and substance of Teach Ye Diligently, by Elder Boyd K. Packer of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A teacher by profession as well as avocation, Elder Packer draws upon personal experiences and observations in the classroom, as a teaching administrator, and in his own family to provide down-to-earth, useful interpretations of teaching principles that can help everyone who teaches in any type of situation. For the classroom teacher, there are helpful guides to maintaining discipline, providing a climate conducive to learning, and using proven principles to aid the learning process. For parents as well as those called formally to teach, there are suggestions on how to make difficult subjects more easily understood, how to answer the hard-to-answer question, attention-getters, how to use stories, poetry, and visual aids for the greatest impact. Throughout the book, the emphasis is on teaching moral and spiritual values, in response to the Lord's admonition in Doctrine and Covenants 88: "Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand." Teach Ye Diligently is an important book with an important message for everyone!