“…It was shown that the students of the high self-concept teachers made greater total gain than students of the lower self-concept teachers. Boy and Pine (1971) made observations which validated spy and Buhler's findings.We submit that when a student learns something, it is because he has responded to the teacher as a person, a person who relates to students with a core attitude of acceptance, empathy, concreteness, transparency and personal genuineness (p. ix).These findings by Garvey (1970), Hatfield (1961), Crane (1974), Aspy and Buhler (1975), and Boy and Pine (1971) revealed that the adequacy of a teacher's self-concept can affect his ability to perform effectively as a teacher. The pre-service teacher who has a positive self-concept is able to adjust to preparation for teaching and to perform successfully during student teaching.…”