单选题 What personal qualities are desirable in a teacher? Probably no two people would write exactly similar lists, but I think the following would be (31) accepted.
Firstly, a teacher should be pleasantly (32) and attractive. This does not rule out people who are not good-looking or even (33) , because many such have great personal (34) . But it (35) rule out such types as the over-excitable, dull, sad, cold-mannered, or any with other (36) qualities.
Secondly, it is not only desirable but essential for a teacher to have real capacity for (37) —a capacity to understand the minds and thoughts of other people. Closely related with this is the capacity to be (38) —not indeed of what is wrong, but of weakness of human (39) which induces people, and especially children, to make mistakes.
I find it essential for a teacher to be a bit of a(n) (40) . That is part of the technique of teaching, which demands that every now and then a teacher should put on an act to make his lesson interesting and (41) . Children, especially young children live in a world that is rather larger than life.
A teacher must be capable of great (42) .This, I may say, is largely a matter of self-training. We are (43) of us born like that. Teaching (44) great demands on nervous energy and one should be able to take in (45) stride countless small irritation any adult dealing with children has to endure.
Finally, 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 (46) ; there is always something more to learn about it. There are three main subjects of study: the subject or subjects which the teacher is teaching; the methods (47) the pupils can best be taught in the classes he is teaching; —by far the most important—the children, young people or adults whom he (48) teach. The two main principles of British education today are that education is of the (49) person, and that it is best acquired through full and active (50) between persons, the teacher and the learner.