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(a) When with the help of the present explanation aphorisms uptil the end of a particular topic or uptil the end of a chapter have been taught, then the teacher should neatly place before the students the relevant points of comparison-in this connection following the procedure adopted in the Introduction.
TATTVĀRTHA SŪTRA
Certainly, if lessons are given in line with the suggestions just offered then an additional burden is imposed on the teacher, but unless such a burden is assumed enthusiastically and intelligently the teacher cannot attain a high status and the student community too remains poor in thought. So it is incumbent on the teachers that they should make the best possible preparations and if they are to render fruitful these preparations of theirs it is indispensable that they should prepare the mind of their students. From the standpoint of acquiring pure knowledge all this is of course indispensable but it is also indispensable from the practical standpoint of attaining a status of equality with others and at a time when the current of knowledge is flowing all around as mightily as at present.
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