Show TEACHERS IN CAMBODIA A spiritual dond bond between them and their pupils pupil all children who present themselves at the veat lor for study are ara received it Is not ever required that their parents bring them or visit them says popular science monthly the newcomer chooses his professor and if accepted bogins begins at once to study under tinder his direction installs himself in As cell or in the school hall and becomes his servant if the professor has already too many pupils he refuses the new pupil and advises him to choose another teacher sometimes ho he guides his choice directing him to toa a master who lias has few or no pupils or takes him to the superior who will select a teacher for him tho the choice of a professor is always a grave affair because it is held in cambodia as in all buddhist and Drahm anle countries that professor bad and pupil are bound by strong ties of spiritual at amenity linit and that the pupil ought to lo respect his master as he does ills his father anil and mother the law inflicts the same penalty upon an of feliso of 0 the pupil against his hio master as an offense by a son against his father and mother and it prescribes that in certain cases the pupil may bo heir of his professor when he has cared tor for him or supported him 0 or r served him when studying under his direction not only a family bond but a religious bond too loo is established between them for tho the professor makes it his busin business to teach his pupil the course by which ho he may earn a more advantageous reincarnation and reach the nirvana and becomes his spiritual guide |