Abstract
MICE do not teach; men do. Burns' philosophical reflection on life should signal a simple caveat to the teaching professionbad instructional planning can yield only bad teaching which ultimately reduces learning no matter how inspiring some unplanned moments may be. Time was (and lamentably still is all too frequently) when the of lessons sprang Minerva-like from the head of the teacher into full classroom realization, then and there; this unnatural birth, however superficially glittering and sensational, has proven to be consistently inadequate. The absence of sequence and systematic development of material to be mastered results in punctured lessons and wounded curricula.
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