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SCHOOL TEACHER.
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Written for the home joubxal.
I have read in history of
great, warriors and how
marched on to victory; I have
I read of the great-poets and how
they painted the beautiful pic
tures of nature; I have read of
the great orators and how they
proclaimed their eloquence;, I
have read of the great' inventors
and how they put together the
great electric machines, that we
can talk with people thousands of
miles away; I have read of col
onies and how they rose from des
olated ruins to civilized nations.
I stopped and thought what were
the causes of this, and it. appeared
to me those warriors, poets, ora
tors, inventors and colonizers
Were once little children going to
school. That their minds and
hearts were fashioned there, and
their ambitions were inspired,
and I said that the teacher was
the man behind it all.
Then if the world depends so
much upon the teacher,, let him
be ma/l.e only out of fit material
of which lie must have native en
dowments of mind and heart.
Culture would not avail it, but
can strengthen. Inborn qualities
of sense, sympathy, and insight
are a foundation; and academic
scholarship can enrich but can
not supply their lack.
The ideal school teacher is but a
man amongst men, sturdy, Up
right, courageous ; and he • must
be possessed of high conceptions
and keen discernments of the
ideal of life’s realities to promote
human destinies. Then he ought
to be generous and have manly
principles.
The teacher' must be a patriot
and a lover of his country, cher
ishing, the history of pride, fixing
hopes in the future and promot
ing her weal. When he looks over
his little band of pupils with an
eye that penetrates the future, he
sees that boys and girls are to be
come men and women in the des
tinies of the Republic. He must
then have a knowledge- far beyond;
what ho intends to teach, to deal
justly in the training and welfare
of his pupils, that they might be
better prepared to live and be
happy in this land of liberty.
He must be a scholar as well as
an instructor, a lover of learning,
enriched by academic culture, in
quiry, capacity and ability. His
power must be in learning the se
cret to ispnire pupils in the ac
quisition of knowledge, for when
he fails to be an efficient student
he ceases to be a scientific teach
er. The scientific teacher is like
the sculptor ; he sees out of the
rough looking boy the great, man
in the future,as^the sculptor views
his stately statue out of a huge
piece of marble. I havu watched
tne world and found, that.it is b
the expression of .thought and t.
embodiment of ideas.
In fact, the teacher ought to be
a philosopher, that he may be
os life.” Locke: “It is thought
that makes what we read ours.’
and Carlyle: “The thinkCr is the
worst enemy the devil ever had.
Teaching is an art as well a9
science—^-then ; an ideal school
master must; feu an artist. At
least, he must be a man endowee
with su'ch qualities as to work up
on the child’s mind as the artist
with, his paints and brushes can
work upon his picture. On the
other hand, he should rightly
view things, for he is seeking to
be taught from all things and e.v
erywhere. Then he should be .con
scious of his calling, and above all
things he should be no cobbler
marring God’s handiwork, and
sending Human souls out into the
world maimed and halt and blind.
The material on which he works is
the human soul; the ideal toward
which he strives is its completest
development; his pattern is the
perfect man, Christ Jesus. He
makes or mars his material for all
time and eternity. The sculptor
can take his chisel and make cor
rections, but the teacher’s blun
ders are wounds that are never ef
faced,—-in fact it is death. The
teacher*works Upon the human
soul and the h uman mind.
The ideal school-master is a
Christian gentleman. He has a
tenderconscieu.ee; his personali
ties are sane and sound, healthful
and wholesome, generous and jus t.
His sympathies go out to every
living being. Althouhh he will
meet with difficulties, he must be
ablp to overcome them; he is to
bring human souls out of dark
ness into sunlight and sunshine.
• It will be said :. “Our hearts
were filled With burning while he
walked along with us.” Be care
ful not to fall into the rut of
egotism. . An intelligent being ex
tends far beyond the existence of
what is past. . Emerson had it in
his mind when he said: “I care
not what my daughter stuides,but
I do care with whom she studies.”
And again when he said: “What
you are speaks so loud I cannot
hear what you.say.” The ideal
school 4 master is naturally nedo w-
ed with sense, sympathy and in
sight. He must be possessed
with high prerogatives; ha must
fie a patriot, to promote the wealpf
the Republic, a scholar sifting
history, tme, beautiful and good,
grappling life’s problems. That
he is a pedagogue, that he is an
artist who builds wiser than he
knows, that he is a Christian gen-
man, not to be famous nor fori;
tuate nor rich in duty rendered to
his pupils, his. race, his country
his God.,
Now, to be an ideal schoolmas
ter is to be able to take a chile
from its mother’s arms and deal
be pr#
To do
this he mnst feel an interest in
’ .his pupils; he must work for their
welfare.’
To say in conclusion, the ideal
The Savannah Press very aptly :
says: “The astounding thing to j
business men is to see gray-haired
and conservative bank presidents
meet around the board and ad
vance millions to save these reck
less gamblers; put up honest mon
ey to bolster fictitious values;
come to the relief of a set of stock
jobbers as if they wefe JOckson-
ville sufferers, honest men bowed
by providential visitation. Did
anybody ever hear of the banks
or clearing houses putting up an
emergency fund for the farmers
when the crops failed or the blight
ensued? In times of industrrial
depression when mill men are run
ning behind and labor is deprived
of its just reward do these bank
ers organize for their relief? And"
yet a wail from Wall street will
put every financier upon his met
tle and the money kings plunge
their hands into their vaults up
to their arm pits and pledge bags
of gold to ‘ease the situation.’ ”
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an ache, could hardly believe he
is the same, who, a short time ago,
had to sit in a chair, propped up
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interested in the development of
human: souls,, and one who can
take the baser metals aud turn
them into purer manhood. : He
should be a lover of truth, who is
not moved by excitement, but by
principle.
The ideal school-master ought
to be a pedagogue who has com
passed educational thought, who
has contemplated the march of
.educctional ideas and creed, who
has rights of education. .. Plato
says:. “Next.to creating a human
soul, the greatest thing is to edu
cate it ^properly. ’ ’ He then should
be possessed of the thought in the
thing, and have the thing wall fix
ed in the mind. He should be a
student of methods and have a
knowledge of the history of ideas.
The teacher shoul^not expeiaflgeojix
perilously with human souls;’ Ke
must not pitch his tent in the
graveyard of dead methods. Hence
it is a help^emto tJieJbset
ers to be tlioughfcful. sfcude
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truthfulness of his profession,and
for his love for his people and
country. Let him, leave no cause
tin won, no laurels withered; but
leave a loftier sentiment, a hap
pier, nbbler, and grander country.
And at last to see , the better
day has' come; he might ^‘draw
the drapery of his couch about
him, and lie down to pleasant
dreams to think fif his pupils who
liave gone ou£~ to make the world
better. J. D. Renfroe,
Havana, Ga.
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