ABSTRACT
Even the best of teachers cannot teach unless students want to learn; and students want to learn only in so far as they recognise gaps in their knowledge and feel the need to fill them. Although a class list is helpful for preliminary planning, the really important details must come from the students themselves. The teacher can list on the blackboard the headings for the details he is seeking and ask the students to write them down and hand them in. Even to the training officer in industry, who knows much more about his students from personnel records, a biographical sketch can be extremely useful. There is also the danger of the student’s employer becoming antagonistic to management teaching if he feels that he and his firm are being held up to a group of students for criticism even though the final result may be to improve the performance of one of his employees.
