That if the teachers and the children take a great deal of trouble the progress will be very remarkable, whatever method is employed, and that without this both the classical and the "natural" methods can accomplish very little.
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That teachers with fixed ideas about children and about methods arrest development.
4.

That the self-instruction courses which "work out at a penny a lesson" (the lesson lasts ten minutes and is especially recommended for use in trams), and the gramophone with the most elaborate records, still bear witness to the old doctrine that there is no royal road to the learning of languages, and that it is not cheap in the end.

In proportion to the value we set upon perfect acquirement of them will be our willingness to spend much labour upon foundations.

By this road we arrive again at the fundamentals of an educator's calling, love and labour.
The value to the mind of acquiring languages is so great that all our trouble is repaid.