i think a teacher should have the kind of mind which always wants to go on learning. teaching is a job at which one will never be perfect; there is always something more to learn about it. there are three principal objects of study: the subject or subjects, which the teacher is teaching; the methods by which they can best be taught to the particular pupils in the classes he is teaching; and - by far the most important - the children, young people, or adults to whom they are to be taught. the two cardinal principles of british education today are that education is education of the whole person