John Milton Gregory, in his book "The Seven Laws of Teaching," suggest that these seven laws are not complex but simple. They are so simple and natural that every teacher should be aware of them and be able to incorporate them into the way they teach. The seven laws are:
1. A teacher must be one who knows the lesson or the truth taught.
2. A learner is one who attends with interest to the lesson given.
3. The language used as a medium between teacher and learner must be common to both.
4. The lesson to be learned must be explicable in the terms of truth already known by the learner - the unknown must be explained by the known.
5. Teaching is arousing and using the pupil's mind to form in it a desired conception of thought.
6. Learning is thinking into one's own understanding of a new idea or truth.
7. The test and proof of teaching done - the finishing and fastening process - must be re-viewing, re-thinking, re-knowing, and re-producing of the knowledge taught.
Christian educators must look at these laws through the lens of gospel truth. Teaching, by its very natural, is encultrating students with a world and life view. Our responsibility is enormous and should never be taken lightly. The teacher's lesson must always be embedded inside the truth of the Christian worldview.
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