If education is taught without any interactive relationship between the student and the educator and is not entertaining, it can be less of an enriching experience and will be ineffective. One of the main factors in education is the methodology of educating. The delivery of educating is almost as crucial as the material. When one has a bad teacher, who does not make class interesting, such as Miss O"Rorke, children see education as a burden rather than an enriching experience. This is seen when the children who are students under Miss O"Rorke do not want to go to school, "Every morning there were protestations and tears. The children did not want to go to school"(Roy, 61). Education should be brought on as an enriching experience by making the material fun and interesting. An example can be seen by looking at Armand Dubreuil, who made his students understand and enjoy school, "In this fashion the children understood what Luzina had already maintained: that it was night on one portion of the terrestrial globe while elsewhere the sun was shining. He was a good teacher-even an excellent teacher."(Roy, 72). .
Another issue that Roy brings up in Where Nests the Water Hen dealing with the methods of educating is the construction of the school with a platform. The platform creates a sense of power relationship between the teachers and the students, "A platform was perhaps useful to the relationship between teacher and pupils. As he looked at it, the teacher should dominate the pupils, speak to them from high, as it were. This must be the way to go about it: place the teacher higher than the students."(Roy, 39) It gives the power to the teacher because they are always looking down upon the students. In a society of equality, there should be no platform, as it will give the students a sense of equality with the teacher. This style of classroom could also affect the effectiveness of the methodology of teaching by being more interactive with the students and making their school experience a truly enriching one.