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Show THE TEACHER A NATION BUILDER No one is more worthy to bear this great title than the teacher in our school. Never . did the truth of such a state ment crowd its wayso irresistab-ly irresistab-ly into our thought as when we stood a few days ago before a throng of little children, ranging rang-ing frem six to fourteen years of age, as they proudly marched into the school building. In general gen-eral appearance, in attractiveness attractive-ness of face, in keenness of perception, in brightness of eye in all the signs that promise fine and noble citizenship there was no difference. It was a city ! of factories. Recent industrial disturbance had been inclining us to rather pessimistic views as to the fut- : ure. That wonderful body of children, witn the possibilities for all that is high gleaming ; from their eyes, trained by that splendid group of teachers, was the best sort of medicine for one with pessimistic symptoms. sym-ptoms. Give those earnest men and j those gentle women a fewyears j with these children and through : that steady transfusion of life : . by which the teacher pours himself into the very soul of ;; the pupil, there will be formed j; a generation of citizens which the agitator and anarchist cannot can-not move at will, inciting to violence and outrage. Here is the hope of America, the public school, and the teach-! teach-! er makes the scholar. Read'-The ! Promised Land," by Mary An- tin, if you question this. "Teaching," someone has said, "while.it is the vilest of trades becomes the noblest of professions". |