This speech presents a case for "joining hands" as the educational theme of the 1980s. In "joining hands" with their students, schools need to abandon assembly-line models of instruction in order to adopt learning and teaching styles that nurture students' inner potential and provide for individual differences of both teachers and students. Hence, the speech argues that teachers should combine the roles of "farmer" in attending to optimum conditions for students' physical and mental development, and "artist" in recognizing and respecting their natural talents. A list is provided of over 50 learning style variables, classified as environmental, physical, sociological, psychological, and mental. The rest of the speech provides advice for teachers in learning to adjust their teaching styles to fit varied classroom needs and various types of students. Teaching styles are categorized according to the four basic personality types of students (based on the Myers-Briggs indicators): SJ (sensing-judging), SP (sensing-perceiving), NT (intuitive-thinking) and NF (intuitive-feeling). Advice is then provided, along with a chart, on aspects of educational environment that can or cannot be varied to accommodate different learning styles. The author presents a point-by-point comparison of "alternative" (humanistic) teachers with traditional teachers and concludes with an appeal for an instructional model that calls for teaching people according to the way they learn and simultaneously recognizing that teachers, like students, vary in style and personality. (TE)