This chapter focuses on lekta as the objects of ordinary teaching. What there is to teach, and what there is to learn are lekta, say the Stoics. This claim leads to affirming the mind-independence of lekta since it is what is distinct and external from us, and yet obtains as true, that we need to be taught, especially once teaching and learning are understood as necessary steps in the natural development of reason in us. There are two methods for this developement to follow its natural course: through sense-perception leading to the acquisition of conceptions on the basis of experience, and through teaching and paying attention. The methods are not only compatible but are equally necessary to enable us to fulfil our impulse to preserve what we come to understand is most characteristic of us, as rational beings in a rational cosmos, namely reason. The Stoic theory of oikeiōsis, appropriation, is discussed in relation to the teaching and learning of lekta, as also the further question of the stages of this process of instruction. The Stoics make a distinction between two ways impressions come about in our minds: hupo, by, and epi, in relation to. A suggestion is put forward that this difficult distinction expands the distinction between the two methods, sensory and through attention, which ground the natural developement of reason. In this light, the example the Stoics take of the gymnasitics teacher, often decried as incongruous, is defened as a paradigmatic case of teaching how to pay attention to lekta, expressed through a language of the body.