Purpose:
Become a teacher that is fitted by nature or trained by instruction and experience to be qualified for our office so that the students reach their potential and enjoy learning.
Central Messages:
1. Women have statistically proven that they are more effective educators.
2. More women should be utilized to train the children.
3. Untrained teachers don’t know how to tune these “instruments” and cause chaos while trained
4. Teachers have a positive outlook and can tune the “instruments” so they combine as an excellent harmony.
5. Do not teach for money, teach because we love those we are teaching.
Applications/Validations:
1. President Uchtdorf- “You are choice daughters of our Heavenly Father, and . . . you are a great power for good. You will make the world a better place.”
2. Elder Ballard- “Sisters, we, your brethren, cannot do what you were divinely designated to do from before the foundation of the world. We may try, but we cannot ever hope to replicate your unique gifts. There is nothing in this world as personal, as nurturing, or as life changing as the influence of a righteous woman.”
3. An example of untrained teacher is Korihor. He did not understand the things of the Lord and caused peoples’ hearts to be turned from Christ.
4. Luke 7:22 “Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.”
5. Christ and His disciples gave up everything they had to teach the people because they loved them. (Luke 18:22) D&C 6:7 “Seek not for riches but for wisdom.”