- Be interested in your subject.
- Know your subject.
- Know about the ways of teaching.
- Try to read the faces of your students, try to see their expectations and difficulties, put yourself in their places.
- Give them not only information, but "know-how," attitudes of the mind, the habit of methodical work.
- Let them learn guessing.
- Let them learn proving.
- Look out for such features of the problem at hand as may be useful in solving the problems to come ...
- Do not give away your whole secret ...
- Suggest it, do not force it down their throats.