Leave them thinking—the single impression idea

Leave them laughing! This would hardly seem to be an appropriate thing to say for someone who is going to talk seriously about conducting classroom discussions or adult discussion groups. Yet it does convey a maxim for one business which can properly be carried over and applied in teaching or discussion leading. This maxim is: Create one impression during each discussion session. Or put another way, Leave your group at the end of the discussion with one idea foremost and uppermost in its mind. It works this way: Suppose you have a history class (it could just as well be any other group). Three impressions which you might want to leave with the members of the class after the appropriate discussion are

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