
Teachers educate their students in hopes that the children will enter society somewhat prepared to face the challenges they will encounter throughout their lives. After all, children are the future and they will inherit everything in the world. Thus, it is important to educate them in a manner that is prudent for their learning process. Many experts believe that in order to prepare children for the real life, teachers must realize that teaching is an art form and should teach them accordingly. During the early 1950's, the classicist Gilbert Highet wrote a book entitled The Art of Teaching. In his book, he asserts that teaching is an art rather than science and feels that the scientific application of teaching is inadequate and distorted. He realizes the importance of any teacher to be orderly planning his or her work and logically present their facts to their students; however, he emphatically states that it does not make the teaching scientific. Highet claims that teaching involves emotions and human values that cannot be systematically appraised and employed (Highet 1950).